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Definition of Spanceling
1. spancel [v] - See also: spancel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanceling
Literary usage of Spanceling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois, Containing Historical Events, Anecdotes by Henry Asbury (1882)
"... kindling a fire and spanceling out his horse, he prepared to spend the night,
but first ascended the bluff to the circular prairie where there is now ..."
2. The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society (1867)
"Yet the vulgar and most usuall way of spanceling, not onely of Horses, but black
Cattle, viz., Cows, &c., in this Countrey, is by joining ther fore [Here in ..."
3. The Art of Taming and Educating the Horse: With Details of Management in the by Dennis Magner (1886)
"A horse will stand quietly by spanceling the fore legs together; that is, tying
two small cords around the fore legs about six or seven inches apart. ..."
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