See spule on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Either:\n* A variant of spauld, spaul (“shoulder”).\n* Unrelated to spauld, and of obscure origin.",
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}
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78,
83
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],
"ref": "1803, “Christie's Will”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 2nd edition, volume III, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, page 113:",
"text": "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.",
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"A shoulder."
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"(Scotland) A shoulder."
],
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]
}
],
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},
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}
],
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"to hose down; to wash by directing a strong stream of water towards"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English spawde. Compare the form spaul.",
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}
],
"etymology_text": "Either:\n* A variant of spauld, spaul (“shoulder”).\n* Unrelated to spauld, and of obscure origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spules",
"tags": [
"plural"
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}
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"ref": "1803, “Christie's Will”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 2nd edition, volume III, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, page 113:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A shoulder."
],
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"(Scotland) A shoulder."
],
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]
}
],
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}
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}
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"expansion": "spule (plural spules)",
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],
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"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "noun",
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}
],
"word": "spule"
}
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