单词 | spancel |
释义 | spanceln. A rope or fetter for hobbling cattle, horses, etc.; esp. a short, noosed rope used for fettering the hind legs of a cow during milking. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > hobble or fetter cubbelc1230 pastern1284 lock1384 langle1394 spannel1398 warlockc1440 curb1477 hough-band1568 foot widdy1569 curble1598 spancel1610 hopple1641 twitchel1689 collaring1692 hobble1744 sideline1803 hog-tie1902 pigging-string1924 1610 [implied in: J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxvii. 184 He beareth Sable a Horse passant, Argent, Spanceled on both legs of the neerer side. (at spancel v. 1)]. 1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 44 A Spancel, a Rope to tye a Cows hinder Legs. [Hence in Grose and later glossaries.] 1689 Irish Hudibras 84 See'st thou that Monster with the Tail, That ugly Monaghan Spanci-all [margin. Fetterd] The worst of all the Devils? 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 172 The horses are turned loose in the woods, only with leather spancills or fetters on two of their legs. 1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 114 Upon the neighbouring bushes and wooden crosses hang fragments of clothes, or halters and spancels. 1882 Blackwood's Mag. 51 253 He snatched up a spancel that hung at the dairy window. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). spancelv. 1. transitive. To fetter or hobble with a spancel or spancels. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > hobble warlocka1400 langlec1440 hopple1586 impester1601 trammel1607 wisp1607 spancel1610 side-hankle1627 sidelanga1642 sidelangle1660 side-span1660 hamshackle1802 hobble1804 twitchel1826 sideline1837 span1847 heel1887 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxvii. 184 He beareth Sable a Horse passant, Argent, Spanceled on both legs of the neerer side. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxvii. 184 Albeit this Horse be now Spanceled as you see. 1820 J. Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. New S. Wales 47 The animals [horses] were all spencilled, but such is the scarcity of both water and grass, that they will wander in search of each. 1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 333 Neither could his neighbours' cattle have been guilty of the trespass, for they were spancelled. 1882 S. M. Heckford Lady Trader in Transvaal 260 It is the fashion in Africa to spancel a horse by tying its head to one of its legs. 2. transferred. (See quot. 1859) U.S. ΚΠ 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 431 To spancel,..to prevent a crab from biting, by sticking the point of a leg into the base of each movable claw. Derivatives ˈspancelled adj. Also figurative ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > hobbled unpegged1655 spancelled1835 knee-haltered1849 hobbled1860 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [adjective] > restricted in free action coarctc1420 shackledc1440 coarcteda1500 haltered?1510 catesnd1566 straited1581 immurate1593 chained1613 hampered1633 muzzled1647 throttled1677 tethereda1680 fetlocked1725 strangled1813 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 iron-bound1850 cabined1853 manacled1861 vaulted1863 tied1876 strait-jacketed1894 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled yfeteredOE fettereda1325 bounda1382 ygyveda1387 shackledc1440 bounded1711 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited > in free action coarctc1420 shackledc1440 coarcteda1500 haltered?1510 catesnd1566 straited1581 chained1613 hampered1633 muzzled1647 tethereda1680 fetlocked1725 strangled1813 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 iron-bound1850 cabined1853 manacled1861 vaulted1863 tied1876 strait-jacketed1894 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 142 We should be about as much in a fit state..as..a spancelled pig to run a race with a greyhound. 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. 267 Driving two brace of coupled and spancelled goats. 1910 J. M. Synge Deirdre of Sorrows ii. 35 You're seven years spancelled with Naisi and the Pair. 1965 New Statesman 26 Nov. 848/1 In England it is the wives who regard themselves as the spancelled party. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 688/4 He was..spancelled by a lack of money that meant he could never be apprenticed to a leading London surgeon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1610v.1610 |
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