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spanged, ppl. a. north. dial.
Also spenged.
[f. spang v.1]
Spangled, flecked, variegated, etc. Usu. of cattle.
1582Durham Wills (Surtees) II. 65, I gyue to Roland Sympson one spangit whye. 1583Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1860) 75 To my sonne William a spangde cowe. 1621Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 249 For an odde oxe that was spanged. Ibid., For a yolke of oxen called Little Spanged Oxe and his felowe. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 354 Speng'd, pied, as cattle. 1828–in dial. glossaries (Yks., Lanc., Cumbld., etc.). 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss., Spenged. |