spule
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Either:
Noun[edit]
spule (plural spules)
- (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]
- ^ “spaul, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- ^ “spule, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Danish[edit]
Verb[edit]
spule
Scots[edit]
Noun[edit]
spule (plural spules)