byspel

Noun

(plural byspels)

(now chiefly dialectal) An example.

Usage notes

Neither this term nor any of its alternative forms can be found in COCA or BNC, two of the largest corpora of contemporary usage, American and British respectively.

Anagrams

blypes

Origin

From Middle English bispel, byspell, from Old English, bīspel, biġspel (“proverb, parable, example, story”), from bī- (“by”) + spel (“talk, story”), equivalent to by- +‎ spell. Cognate with Middle Dutch bijspel (“proverb, parable”), Low German bispeel (“example”), German Beispiel (“example”). More at by-, spell.