Also 4, 7 spinall, 5 spynal, 7 spinnall, spinnel, 9 spinel. [Of obscure origin; in sense 2 app. a. G. spinal (Du. spinaal), thread or yarn of various kinds.]
† 1. Some textile fabric. Obs.
1399–40. Compotas fral. orat. dominice in civitate Ebor. (MS.), Et de xiiij d. pro iiij ulnis et dimidio et j quart. de spinall pro corpore dicti Richardi involvendo.
1431. Maldon Crt. Rolls, Bundle 18 No. 6. j pese de spynal contin. xii ellys, prec. le elle iii d. obol.
2. A kind of yarn (see later quots.).
16[?]. Advt. of M. Gregory, Haberdasher, at the Raven and Sun, Drury Lane. Inkle and Spinnel, and Scotch Yarn.
1692. Patent Office, No. 286. 1. The Makeing of Spinall Yarne is a new Invention never practiced before. Ibid. Severall workmen out of Germany … skilled in makeing the said spinnall.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, 203/2. Unwrought inkle, or short spinel, is bleached yarn. Ibid., 355/1. Spinal, a kind of unwrought inkle.
Spinal, obs. form of SPINEL (ruby).
