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).
| 1307 Wakefield Crt. Rolls (1906) II. 131 [They assaulted and beat her, and broke the] spilebon [of her arm]. 1698 in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1912) IX. 193 A fall..broke the speell bone of her leg. 1869–76 in Lonsdale and Whitby glossaries. |