Meaning & use
Speel
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To climb, especially nimbly and using the hands as well as the feet.
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The children loved to speel over the garden wall.
It took him minutes to speel to the top of the old oak.
A note on using this word
A Scots and Northern English dialect verb, closely related in sound and sense to 'spiel' but unconnected to it in origin.
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