spreel (spre)

[Perhaps John Blower, honest man, as sailors are aye for some spree or another, wad take me ance to see ane Mrs. Siddons. Scott , St. Ronan's Well, xx. 2. A bout or season of drinking to intoxication; a fit of drunkenne . Periodic drinkers, with long intervals between sprees. Amer. Jour. Psychol., I. 518. =Syn. 2. Revel, Debauch, etc. See carousal 1. spreel (sprē), v. i. [ He... took to spree in ' and liquor, and let down from a foreman to a hand. T. Winthrop, Love and Skates. spree2 (sprē), a. [Appar. a var. of spry. Connection with spreel is uncertain.) Spruce; gay. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] spreettail (sprēt tāl), n. Same as sprit tail .