spiall

English

Alternative forms

• spyale spial

Noun

spiall (usually uncountable, plural spiall)

1. (archaic) A spy; spies.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book I, lxvii:

     For he by faithful spiall was assur'd, / That Egypt's king was forward on his way.

2. (archaic) The act of spying; espionage.

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• Pillas