Meaning & use
Speeling
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Climbing, especially nimbly or using both hands and feet; the present participle of the dialectal verb 'speel.'
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The boys spent the afternoon speeling up the rocky crag.
She watched the ivy speeling its way up the old stone wall.
A note on using this word
A Scots and Northern English dialect word, still heard in regional speech and older literature.
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climbingscalingscrambling
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