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spule

English edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

spule (plural spules)

  1. (Scotland) A shoulder.
    • 1803, “Christie's Will”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 2nd edition, volume III, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, page 113:
      And he has opened the fair tower yate, / To Traquair and a' his companie; The spule o' the deer on the board he has set, / The fattest that ran on the Hutton Lee.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ “spaul, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
  2. ^ “spule, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Danish edit

Verb edit

spule

  1. to hose down; to wash by directing a strong stream of water towards

Scots edit

Noun edit

spule (plural spules)

  1. shoulder
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