Brewer's: Spittle

or Spital. An hospital.

“A spittle or hospital for poore folks diseased a spittle, hospitall, or lazarhouse for lepers” $$$ (1580).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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