spetchel
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /speˈt͡ʃl/
Noun
spetchel (plural spetchels)
- (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, volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 660