spital

plural spitals · alternative spittle

1. historicalA charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.

   Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3

1. A suburb of Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9675).
2. An eastern suburb of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3970).
3. A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3483).