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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1686
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(Spaling,) Spealling, n. [Spale n.] The action of cutting a shaving from a barrel as a means of identification. — 1686 Fountainhall Decis. I 429.
Spealling is the cutting off a speal, that by joining it again, they may know the property of the puncheon they had chosen
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