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单词 espelers
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espelersn.

Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymon: French espelé.
Etymology: Perhaps < Middle French espeler to remove the hair, attested only as past participle espelé shaved (13th cent. in Old French), without hair (14th cent.) < es- es- prefix + peler pill v.1; compare -er suffix4. Compare speller n.3, spiller n.2 Compare also French espeller to flay (1606), to pull out hair (1636).Deer antlers lose their velvety skin when they are fully grown.
Obsolete.
Snags or dentelations on the hinder edge of the palm or broad upper part of a buck's horn; = spiller n.2
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1486 Bk. St. Albans E iiij He most haue..xxiiij espelers and then ye may hym call..a grete Bucke.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Espelers, the 3d branch of the harts-horns.
1715 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (ed. 2) Espelers, the third Branch of the Harts Horn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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