spane

See also: Späne

English

Verb

spane (third-person singular simple present spanes, present participle spaning, simple past and past participle spaned)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) To wean; to spean.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spane in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspanɛ/, [ˈspanə]

Participle

spane

  1. inflection of spany:
    1. nominative and accusative singular neuter
    2. nominative and accusative plural

Middle English

Noun

spane

  1. Alternative form of spanne

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *spanô, *spenô. See English spean.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspɑne/

Noun

spane f

  1. (anatomy) teat

Inflection
Declension of spane (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative spane spanan
accusative spanan spanan
genitive spanan spanena
dative spanan spanum

Descendants
  • Middle English: *spane, *spene
    • English: spene, speen (dialectal)
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