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spurket
† spurket Obs. Also -ett, -it. (See quots.) From one or other of these 17th cent. quots. the word and explanation are copied into subsequent dictionaries, the form being latterly altered to spirket, prob. by association with spirketting.a 1625 Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301), Spurketts are the ... Oxford English Dictionary
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spirket
▪ I. ˈspirket1 E. Angl. dial. Also 7 spirkit, 9 sper-, spurket. [Of obscure origin: cf. prec. and spirget.] A stout peg or hook on which to hang things.1644 J. Carter Nail & Wheel (1647) 14 The use of such a nail, or peg, or spirkit is to hang things out of hand. 1787 Marshall Norfolk Gloss., Spirke... Oxford English Dictionary
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spirketting
spirketting Naut. (ˈspɜːkɪtɪŋ) Also 8 spirkit-, 9 spirkitting, sparketting. [app. f. spirket (cf. prec.), var. of spurket.] 1. Inside planking between the waterways and the ports of a vessel. (See quots. 1750, 1769.)1748 Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 158 Her spirkiting and timbers were very rotten. 1750 T. R... Oxford English Dictionary
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