ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Spittal

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Spittal is a noun meaning lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital.

Meaning

lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital.

More Meanings

  1. a house or place of refuge for the sick, especially one for patients with contagious diseases
  2. a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spital, glebe, lichfield, spalding, pottersfield, minster.

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