Sc. [Of obscure origin: not a normal variant of SPAULD.]

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  1.  A shoulder, esp. of an animal.

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1803.  Scott, Christie’s Will, vi. in Minstrelsy. The spule o’ the deer on the board he has set. The fattest that ran on the Hutton Lee.

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  2.  attrib. in spule-blade, -bone.

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1802.  [see SPEAL-BONE].

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1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., xviii. Then for dinner … there’s no muckle left on the spule-bane. Ibid. (1824), Redgauntlet, let. xi. His left hand [was] always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.

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