spittal

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spittal (plural spittals)

  1. lands the revenues of which supported a hospital or the site of a hospital
  2. a house or place of refuge for the sick, especially one for patients with contagious diseases
  3. a shelter built along roads in 16th and 17th century Scotland as a shelter from wolf attacks