ppl. a. [f. SPAN v.1 and v.2] That is or has been spanned or drawn tight.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 24/1. The tunge beinge … hindred, by a certayne ligament, vvhich ve call the spanned vayn.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, I. Introd. p. xxvi. He made a too tight-laced Objection, where he quarrels with the spann’d Waist of Pamela.
