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单词 spancel
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spanceln.

/ˈspansɪl/
Forms: Also 1600s spanciall, 1700s spancill, 1800s dialect spenchil, spenshel, etc.
Etymology: < Flemish, Dutch, or Low German spansel (in Kilian spanssel ), < spannen span v.2 Compare spannel n., and Old Norse spennsl (Norwegian spensl, Middle Swedish spenszel) clasp, tie.
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.
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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.

/ˈspansɪl/
Forms: Also 1800s spansel, spencill.
Etymology: < spancel n.
1. transitive. To fetter or hobble with a spancel or spancels.
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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.
figurative.1844 C. Napier Let. to H. Napier in Life (1862) III. 153 Gough himself is all right, only spancelled by his staff; they wanted to tie my legs too, but I kicked the pail over, and spoiled the milking.
2. transferred. (See quot. 1859) U.S.
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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
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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).
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