Sc. [See BONSPIEL.] A match at curling.
1824. Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 333. Then curling, and hurling, The channelstane at spiels.
1830. M‘Diarmid, Sk. Nat., 252. In the whole range of rural sports, I know nothing more exhilarating than a spiel on the ice.
1901. R. M. F. Watson, Closeburn, xiv. 232. In 1838 a spiel had not then been played in the memory of man in Aberdeenshire.
