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huspil, -el, v. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈhʌsp(ə)l| [a. F. houspiller (15th c. in Littré) to maltreat by dragging about and shaking, altered from hous-, houssepigner (13th c.), f. housse (see house n.2) + pigner, peigner to comb, and therefore properly = ‘peigner le manteau, battre’ (Hatz.-Darm.).] trans. To treat with violence; to maltreat; to despoil; to harass.
c1440Promp. Parv. 255/1 Huspylyn, or spoylyn..spolio, dispolio. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 38 When they are most terrified and huspil'd by these Ghosts. 1663P. Henry Diaries (1882) 143 Y⊇ quarter Sessions at Clanroost where y⊇ Conventiclers, so called, were huspeld. 1873in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v. Huspel, ‘I'll 'uspel yo' childern off that causey.’ |