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spittal
n. 1 lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital 2 a house or place of refuge for the sick, especially one for patients with contagious diseases 3 a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks
Usage examples of "spittal".
From the chalice came brief flashes and puffs of smoke, as the spittal was incinerated.
He had passed this fellow on other occasions and presumed that he and his like were the reason why this park, which dropped away steeply to the south down a leafy ravine with cascading stream in the direction of the fish quay, was known as Spittal Dene.