English Dictionary

spell

/spɛl/

noun

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour. / (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).

I will take the morning spell at work tomorrow.

意味（1）

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

意味（2）

(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).

A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

意味（3）

(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells. … When he had spoken, Mina's long spell of silence made me look at her.

意味（4）

A period of rest; time off.

意味（5）

(colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

意味（6）

(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.