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spancelled

spancelled is the simple past and past participle of spancel.

Meaning of spancel

Verb

spancel (third-person singular simple present spancels, present participle (US) spanceling or (UK) spancelling, simple past and past participle (US) spanceled or (UK) spancelled)

  1. (transitive) to hobble with a spancel

See all 2 meanings of spancel

Adjective

spancelled (not comparable)

  1. hobbled with a spancel
    • They knew nothing of the barbarous practice on the English coast, of fastening a lanthorn to the limbs of a spanselled horse, whose plungings were to misdirect the wrecked and sinking wretches, in the vain hope that the light they saw was a beacon, and thus to double the horrors of death by the...1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 154

Questions about spancelled

What does spancelled mean?
Spancelled means hobbled with a spancel.
What is spancelled the simple past and past participle of?
Spancelled is the simple past and past participle of spancel.
What part of speech is spancelled?
Spancelled is an adjective.

Words near spancelled in the dictionary

  1. Spanberga
  2. Spanberger
  3. spancel
  4. spanceled
  5. spanceling
  6. spancelled
  7. spancelling
  8. spancels
  9. Spandau
  10. Spander
  11. spandex

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spancelled (page history and authors); spancel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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