spreathe

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English

Verb

spreathe (third-person singular simple present spreathes, present participle spreathing, simple past and past participle spreathed)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To make chapped, as with cold.

Noun

spreathe

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The condition of being chapped, as with cold.
    • 2012, John Hart, Mammoth Boy, page 106:
      Urrell's own face smarted with dirt, exposure and cold-spreathe. He touched his nose and cheek, felt the crust of grime and chapped skin, and wondered how Agaratz showed no signs of the cold they had been through together.