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{ "derived": [ { "word": "speal-bone" } ], "etymology_text": "Either:\n* A variant of spauld, spaul (“shoulder”).\n* Unrelated to spauld, and of obscure origin.", "forms": [ { "form": "spules", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "spule (plural spules)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 3 entries", "Pages with entries", "Scottish English" ], "examples": [ { "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": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A shoulder." ], "links": [ [ "shoulder", "shoulder#Noun" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Scotland) A shoulder." ], "tags": [ "Scotland" ] } ], "word": "spule" }
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