Definition of "skeel" [skeel]

• A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. (noun)

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• "But I'mb'un 'to say, ootside the risk o' some mistak, o 'the gr'un's o' which I can ken naething, for else I wadna hae made it, 'at this bit horsie o' yours, by a '' at my knowledge or skeel, which is naither"
• "Her great "skeel" was poised easily on her head; and, as she strode along singing lightly without shaking a drop of water over the edge of her pail, you could see how she had come by her erect carriage."
• "“In gude troth, ye have skeel of our sect, sir,” replied the dame; “they are gomerils, every one of them — I tell them sae every hour of the day, but catch them profiting by the doctrine.”"