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spetchel

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spe?t?l/

Noun

spetchel (plural spetchels)

  1. (North English) A levee or dike made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them.

References

  • Levee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • A glossary of North Country Words, with their etymology, and affinity to other languages, third edition, volume 2 (of 2), by John Trotter Brockett and William Edward Brockett, 1846, p. 152 (books.google)
  • Newcastle & the North C19/1: Brockett's 'North Country Words'
  • Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary?[1], volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 660

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spetchell

English

Noun

spetchell (plural spetchells)

  1. An artificial chalk hill, typically formed through the dumping of chalk-rich industrial waste, which creates a sort of artificial limestone grassland.

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