spule

spule

English

Etymology

Either:

Noun

spule (plural spules)

  1. (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

References

  1. ^ “spaul, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “spule, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Dutch spoelen (“to wash up, rinse”)

Verb

spule

  1. to hose down; to wash by directing a strong stream of water towards

Middle English

Noun

spule

  1. (Catholicon Anglicum) alternative form of spole

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English spawde. Compare the form spaul.

Noun

spule (plural spules)

  1. shoulder
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