dial. Also 4 spile-, 7 speell-. [? f. SPEEL sb.1 Cf. Craven dial. spell-baan in the same sense.] The small bone of the leg († or arm).
1307. Wakefield Crt. Rolls (1906), II. 131. [They assaulted and beat her, and broke the] spilebon [of her arm].
1698. in Jrnl. Friends’ Hist. Soc. (1912), IX. 193. A fall … broke the speell bone of her leg.
1869–76. in Lonsdale and Whitby glossaries.
