different between spancelled vs spanielled

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spancelled

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.

spanielled

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