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ˈspindle-side
[f. spindle n., after older Teutonic combs. Cf. OFris. spindelsida, MLG. spinelside, G. spindelseite; MDu. and MLG. spille(n)-, spilside (Du. spillezijde, G. spillseite); also OE. spinlhealf, MLG. spillhalbe, MDu. and OFris. spindelhant.]
The female line of descent.
1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 526 When..traditions of royalty are deduced through the spindleside, marriages accomplish the most radical of revolutions. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. viii. II. 243 One whose connexion with Normandy was only by the spindle-side. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 246 Such and such qualities he got from..a great-uncle on the spindle side. |