Anglicised as spailpeen or spalpeen, or "wandering landless labourer" was
an itinerant or seasonal farm worker in Ireland from the 17th to the early
20th century.*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpailpĂ*n#cite_note_Culture_page_442_1>*The
term derived from the Irish *spailp*, meaning "turn, spell, bout."
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(Archaic) a woman who sells fish
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spailpĂ*n [Irish] an itinerant or seasonal farm worker
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*Irish English.* Nonsensical talk; overblown or empty rhetoric; claptrap
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any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Fagaceae, including
species in the genera Chrysolepis of western North America and Castanopsis
of East and Southeast Asia; The edible nut of any of these plants
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(Far.) a projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so
as to embrace the lower part of the hoof
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a genre of Spanish thriller or horror film typically involving a murder
mystery and characterized by graphic violence, eroticism, an atmospheric,
sometimes dreamlike blend of suspense and horror elements, and often a
prominent, intense music score
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the ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) of North America
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an iron pin used to attach the figurehead to the prow of medieval round
ships
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A tool, similar to a spike, used to break rocks by inserting it into a
crevice and striking it with a heavy hammer.
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