| 释义 |
spule Sc.
[Of obscure origin: not a normal variant of spauld.]
1. A shoulder, esp. of an animal.
1803Scott Christie's Will vi. in Minstrelsy, The spule o' the deer on the board he has set. The fattest that ran on the Hutton Lee.
2. attrib. in spule-blade, spule-bone.
1802[see speal-bone]. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xviii, Then for dinner..there's no muckle left on the spule-bane. 1824― Redgauntlet let. xi, His left hand [was] always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made. |