spancelled

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adjective

hobbled with a spancel

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of spancel
adjectivespancelled (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehobbled with a spancel
    1 more example

    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 Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 154
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APA

spancelled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spancelled

MLA

“spancelled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spancelled. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spancelled,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spancelled.

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