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