1802 J. Sibbald Gloss. at Spald ‘Reading the speal or spule-bane,’ antiently a common mode of divination.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iv, in 3rd Ser. II. 72 Than for dinner—there's no muckle left on the spule-bane.
1824 W. Scott I. xi. 249 His left hand [was] always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.