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† suspiral Obs.
Also 5–6 suspyral, -all(e, -irall(e, suspirel, 6 sesperal, susprall, cesperalle.
[a. OF. s(o)uspirail (mod.F. soupirail) = Pr. sospiralh, ad. med.L. suspīrāculum, f. suspīrāre to suspire + -culum, denoting instrument.]
1. A breathing-passage.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxi. 80 This neck shalle be the suspyralle wherby the brethe shalle be drawen bothe to comforte of the hede and eke of al the body.
2. A vent, esp. for a conduit.
c1430in Lond. & Middlesex Archæol. Trans. (1870) III. 321 This suspirall seruith for thes ij pipes. c1440Promp. Parv. 485 Suspyral, of a cundyte, spiraculum. 1562in Strype Stow's Surv. (1755) II. v. xxi. 411 No man shall..destroy any pipes Sesperals or Wind-vents pertaining to the Conduits.
3. A pipe or passage for water leading to a conduit.
1420Cov. Leet Bk. 21 Ordinatum fuit quod les Suspirales..deleantur et obstupantur. 1426Ibid. 105 That no welles nor suspiralles, other then ben ordeyned, shuld be had to let the comen Cours of the seid Cundyte. 1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 10 To vewe..the said Heddes pipes suspiralles and vaultes, and them to amend repaire translate. [1656Blount Glossogr., Suspiral,..In the Statute of 35 Hen. 8. Cap. 10. it seems to be taken for a Spring of water, passing under the ground, towards a Conduit or Cestern.]
4. A settling tank; a cesspool.
c1512in Archaeologia (1902) LVIII. 301 In þe same diche boþ⊇ þ⊇ suspirel & þe waste pipe awoyde ther water in a gotir of breke. Ibid. 302 In the botome of this well undir a stone is a susprall wt a tampioun to clense the home pype. 1583in N. Bacon Ann. Ipswiche (1884) 337 Cesperalle to be made for stopping of filthe by the brooke. |