spancelled

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of spancel

adj

1. (not-comparable)hobbled with a spancel

   “They knew nothing of the barbarous practice on the English coast, of fastening a lanthorn to the limbs of a spanselled horse, whose plungings were to misdirect the wrecked and sinking wretches, in the vain hope that the light they saw was a beacon, and thus to double the horrors of death by the baffled expectation of relief.”