Etymology

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Today it means: a rope or fetter used to hobble a horse or other animal Full definition →

Low German spansel
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  1. Low German · borrowed fromspansel
  2. English todayspancel

From Dutch or Low German spansel, from spannen (“to bind, harness”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.