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Definition of Spanceled
1. spancel [v] - See also: spancel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanceled
Literary usage of Spanceled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Joint Documents ... for the Year by Michigan Legislature (1897)
"The terrified pony did not dare to leave the house but circled around and around
it in a monotonous tramp, the thump, thump, thump, of his spanceled feet ..."
2. Ireland's Literary Renaissance by Ernest Augustus Boyd (1922)
"The spanceled is another notable chapter, which reminds one of Synge in its
challenging tragedy of a love which binds, ..."
3. Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; Or, Pioneer Life in the West by James Bradley Finley, William Peter Strickland (1853)
"After having arrived at our place of camping, we spanceled, belled, turned out
our horses, and started to the woods in different directions, to hunt. ..."
4. Davenport, Past and Present: Including the Early History, and Personal and by Franc Bangs Wilkie (1858)
"... and spanceled their horses, arranged their goods, and made preparations for
cooking. Some few Indians came to them, and desired to trade, ..."
5. Life and Times of Ephraim Cutler: Prepared from His Journals and Correspondence by Julia Perkins Cutler, Ephraim Cutler Dawes (1890)
"... I spanceled my horse (that is, tied his fore-legs together with a cord) and,
without fire, laid down beside some old decaying tree that had fallen, ..."
6. The Antelope and Deer of America: A Comprehensive Scientific Treatise Upon by John Dean Caton (1877)
"Having arrived on the ground, make your camp in some grove or belt of timber near
a spring of water, where good grass may be found for the spanceled horses. ..."
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