spean

[ speen ]

verb (used with object)

, Chiefly Scot.

1. to wean.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spean¹

1565–75; variant of dial. spane, Middle English spanen; cognate with Low German, Dutch spenen, German (dial.) Spänen

Example Sentences

This supposes that a vast barrier of ice still remains under Ben Nevis, along all the lower part of the Spean.

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This would, I can suppose, account for the sloping terraces along the Spean.

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The present aspect of Glenroy is that of an upper and lower glen opening up from the larger Glen Spean.

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One of them, lying on the western side of the valley where it opens into Glen Spean, is crossed by a trap-dike.

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What prevented this sheet of water from spreading east and west in Glen Spean?

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