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Definition of Spurgall
1. n. A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.
2. v. t. To gall or wound with a spur.
Definition of Spurgall
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To gall or wound with a spur. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spurgall
1. to injure with a spur [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurgall
Literary usage of Spurgall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1818)
"And if I were as well learned as saint Paule, I would not bestow much amongst
them: further than to gall them, .and spurgall too, when and where as occasion ..."
2. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"And if I were as well learned as saint Paule, I would not bestow much amongst
them : further than to gall them, and spurgall too, when and where as occasion ..."
3. Studies in the word-play in Plautus. by Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn, University of Pennsylvania (1902)
"... jests spurgall his sides " Till his soule bleede." He is fond, too, of extended
comparisons, as in Humor out of Breath, IV, 3. The little imagery which ..."
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