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spancel
English
Noun
spancel (plural spancels)
- a rope or fetter used to hobble a horse or other animal
Verb
spancel (third-person singular simple present spancels, present participle spancelling or spanceling, simple past and past participle spancelled or spanceled)
- (transitive) to hobble with a spancel
Related terms
- spancelled
Anagrams
- enclasp, lens cap
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spancelled
English
Verb
spancelled
- simple past tense and past participle of spancel
Adjective
spancelled (not comparable)
- (of a horse) hobbled with a spancel
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 154-155:
- They knew nothing of the barbarous practice on the English coast, of fastening a lanthorn to the limbs of a spanselled horse, whose plungings were to misdirect the wrecked and sinking wretches, in the vain hope that the light they saw was a beacon, and thus to double the horrors of death by the baffled expectation of relief.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 154-155:
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