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spancelled en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, of a horse) hobbled with a spancel
   • 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:

spancelled en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of spancel
   form of spancel