Spancelled
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Spancelled is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of spancel.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of spancel.
More Meanings
- (of a horse) hobbled with a spancel
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bellowsed, cow-hocked, underhorsed, gunbroke, pascuant, gelded.
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