The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skeel \Skeel\, n. [Icel. skj?la a pail, bucket.]
A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov.
Eng. & Scot.]
--Grose.
Wiktionary
n. (context UK Scotland dialect English) A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.
Wikipedia
Skeel may refer to:
- Albret Skeel (1572-1639), a Danish nobleman who held the office of Admiral of the Realm from 1616 to 1623
- Burt E. Skeel (1894-1924), a United States Air Force and civilian pilot
- Caroline Anne James Skeel (1872-1951), British historian of Wales
- Christian Skeel (born 1956), a Danish artist and composer
- Ingeborg Skeel (c. 1545-1604), a Danish noblewoman
- Mogens Skeel (1651-1694), a Danish playwright
- Richard Skeel (living), an American college administrator and baseball coach
Usage examples of "skeel".
The instruments were of skeel, the string of gut, and were shaped to fit the left forearm of the dancer, to which it was strapped.
Upon either side of the aisle were ranged rows of highly carved desks and chairs of skeel a hard wood of great beauty.
Perhaps you could pass through a locked door of skeel as easily as he performs seemingly more impossible feats.
But at last his fear of his own warriors, watching behind him, grew greater than the fear of the unknown behind the ancient door and he pushed the heavy skeel aside and entered.
My manse is built of rare woods: tirrinch, gauze difono, skeel, purple trank, camfer and a dozen others.
Jackson duly tendered her coin and the slow process of filling her six-gallon skeel began.
Jane rarely more than half filled her skeel, provoking her aunt to fury.
Guilfoyle and Mallory were the two men who had been set to watch Tony Skeel in the Canary murder case.
Cap drove up the Skeel Gulch Road, past quaint homesteads and run-down barns, freshly mowed hay fields, and a huge pond where a moose grazed on water cabbage.
The flier passed on above her to disappear beyond a grove of lofty skeel trees that grew within the palace grounds.
It was of solid skeel, which is practically indestructible, so that though I knew it might be anywhere from five hundred thousand to a million years old, I did not hesitate to trust myself to it.
He was hurling himself as best he could against the trap door, above which I stood with some misgivings which were presently allayed when I realized that not even the vast strength of a white ape could avail against the still staunch and sturdy skeel of the ancient door.
Upon either side of the aisle were ranged rows of highly carved desks and chairs of skeel, a hard wood of great beauty.
CHAPTER XVI ANOTHER CHANGE OF NAME Turan dashed himself against the door of his prison in a vain effort to break through the solid skeel to the side of Tara whom he knew to be in grave danger, but the heavy panels held and he succeeded only in bruising his shoulders and his arms.
My manse is built of rare woods: tirrinch, gauze difono, skeel, purple trank, camfer and a dozen others.