spean
[ speen ]
verb (used with object)Chiefly Scot.
to wean.
Origin of spean
11565–75; variant of dial. spane,Middle English spanen; cognate with Low German, Dutch spenen,German (dial.) Spänen
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How to use spean in a sentence
This supposes that a vast barrier of ice still remains under Ben Nevis, along all the lower part of the spean.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II | Charles DarwinThis would, I can suppose, account for the sloping terraces along the spean.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II | Charles DarwinThe present aspect of Glenroy is that of an upper and lower glen opening up from the larger Glen spean.
The World Before the Deluge | Louis FiguierOne of them, lying on the western side of the valley where it opens into Glen spean, is crossed by a trap-dike.
What prevented this sheet of water from spreading east and west in Glen spean?
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