Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun lands the
revenues of which supported ahospital or the site of a hospital - noun a house or place of
refuge for the sick, especially one for patients withcontagious diseases - noun a
shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word spittal.
Examples
-
So glad to see ur hubcat iz outta teh horse spittal.
While ur up, make meh a sammich - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
-
Ai wud do it mahself iffit put me in teh horse spittal.
NARNIA PORTALS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
-
Himz WUZ definitlee poyzin — putted boaf mah Grandpa & mah Momcat into teh horse spittal wif nastee infekshuns frum bites.
lolcat chares: nowe comez - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
-
Wen ai wuz a liefgard, we had to haz sumwun airlifted to teh horse-spittal fur teh saem kind uv fing.
-
With their usual oafish delivery of spittal, a Fox News mouthpiece called the Iraq Civil War, “snowballing sectarian violence.”
-
Looks like the split-finger fastballs, the cutters, and the sliders have done away with a need for a sneaked gob of spittal on the ball to get that crazy dip-and-doodle advantage pitchers felt it was worth cheating to get in those days; just like the hitters got caught with their syringes shootin' up those muscle-enhancing liquid steroids.
The Stadiums Are Dark The Daily Growler 2006
-
To steal from one another, is indeed highly criminal and indecent; for this may be strictly stiled defrauding the poor (sometimes perhaps those who are poorer than ourselves), or, to set it under the most opprobrious colours, robbing the spittal.
-
"Proctors to some spittal house," and of men who carried dispensations about the country.
-
Sandy gae a bit hauch, an 'swallowed a spittal, an' stappin 'forrit a bittie, began -- "Mester Chairman ----" He gae Pottie a glower that nearhand knokit him aff the box he was sittin' on.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
-
Syne he swallowed a spittal, an 'said -- "Freends an' fella ratepeyers. "
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.