spule Sc.
[Of obscure origin: not a normal variant of spauld.]
1. A shoulder, esp. of an animal.
| 1803 Scott Christie's Will vi. in Minstrelsy, The spule o' the deer on the board he has set. The fattest that ran on the Hutton Lee. |
2. attrib. in spule-blade, spule-bone.
| 1802 [see speal-bone]. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xviii, Then for dinner..there's no muckle left on the spule-bane. 1824 ― Redgauntlet let. xi, His left hand [was] always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made. |