back spaul

The hinder part of the shoulder. ( Scotch.) "... if sae muckle as a collier or a salter make a moonlight flitting, ye will cleck him by the back spaut in a minute of time..."- Scott Red gauntlet, ch. vii. back-tack, back-take, s. In Scotland : A deed by which a wad-setter, instead of himself po e ing the lands which he has in wadset, gives a lease of them to the reverser, to continue in force till they are redeemed, on condition of the payment of the interest of the wadset sum as rent. [DUETY.] "Where lauds are affected with wadsets com prysing a ignments or back - takes , that the same may be first compted in the burdens of the delinquent's estate."- Acts Charles 1. (ed. 1814), vi. 204.