skeel

noun /skiːl/

1. A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream.

   The dairywoman now rolls the whole into one lump[…], closing the fingers, partially, at every stroke; thereby leaving it at the bottom of the skeel, exceedingly rough.

2. A washtub.

Where it comes from

From Old Norse skjóla, from Proto-Germanic *skeulǭ.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry skeel (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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