Spitel
Dizionario Anglo-Sassone Inglese Antico di Bosworth & Toller - spitel
Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:
- spitel
- a kind of spade, a spud, a spittle ['spittle a spade, used for light digging, which is spittling. The square board, with a short flat handle, used in putting cakes into an oven, is a baking-spittle,' Mid-York. Gl. 'Spittle a spade with a curved edge, used for grip-digging.' Holderness Gl. See also E. D. S. Pub. Gl. B, 2, 12, and Halliwell's Dict. In A. R. 384, 18, where one MS. has spade, another has spitelstaf.] and spittan. spitel,-spitel