† spurch Obs. rare.
Also 9 dial. spursher.
[Of obscure origin.]
(See quot. 1823.)
| 1295 Acc. Exch. K.R. 5/8 memb. 8 Empcio meremii... Et xij. d. in .vij. spurches emptis de Roberto le piper. 1336–7 Ibid. 19/31 memb. 5 Et in xxviij. spurch' emptis, vij. s. Et in lvj. boltis ferri videlicet pro quolibet spurch' ij., iiij. s viij. d. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words, Spurshers, straight young fir-trees, the same, I believe, as firbauks and gofers. |