rare. Also 4 spitel. [In early use f. SPIT v.2 + -LE; later f. SPITTLE sb.2]

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  1.  intr. To eject spittle; to spit.

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c. 1340.  Nominale (Skeat), 154. F[emme] coupe pur vn muche, W[oman] spitelith for a flie.

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1876.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., 182/1. It was once the custom ‘to spittle’ at the name of the Devil in church.

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  2.  trans. To make foul with spittle.

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1596.  Nashe, Saffron Walden, Wks. (Grosart), III. 51. To helpe his bedred stuffe to limpe out of Powles Churchyard, that else would haue laine vnreprivably spittled at the Chandlers.

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