rare. [ad. It. spalla, or (in quot. 1827) var. of Sc. spaul SPAULD.] Shoulder.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 29. Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, And naked made each others manly spalles.
1827. Carlyle, Germ. Rom., I. 60. [I] catch the noodle by the spall,… and pack him out of doors.
