A Spell.
Is (as you would say) the doing any labour for a short time, and so ceasing for others to take their turnes; as when they pump
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Is (as you would say) the doing any labour for a short time, and so ceasing for others to take their turnes; as when they pump
an hundred stroakes, or a glasse, they call it a spell: A fresh-spell, that is, others come to work, as rowing in the boate, when one sayes to an other, he will give him a spell, that is, rowe, or pump in his place, and this word is commonly used, only to pumping and rowing.