spial

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/ˈspaɪəl/

noun

Espionage.

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Meanings

nounspial (countable and uncountable, plural spials)

plural spials · alternative spyale · alternative spiall

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableEspionage.
  2. countableobsoleteuncountableA spy.

    And priuie spials plast in all his way, / To weete what course he takes, and how he fares […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    [ Charles François Dumouriez ], roaming far out, obscure, as King's spial, or sitting sealed up, enchanted in Bastille […]

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

Origin

Aphetic form of espial.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with spial

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

spial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spial

MLA

“spial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spial. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spial,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spial.

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