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sparra

sparra [ME sparre], sperra [ME sperre], rafter, beam, spar. 1211 in virgis colligendis ad spernas [? l. sperras] viij d. Pipe Wint. 149; ? 1240 habeant ‥ duodecim carratas spertarum [? l. sperrarum] ad cooperturam domorum suam MonA VI 1575a; 1302 Willelmo serjant adjuvanti eidem et colligenti ~as per iiij dies et dim. vj d. ob. quad. KR Ac 260/22 m. 5; 1302 in ~is colligendis pro ij mullonibus feni cooperiendis MinAc 1131/3 E. 11d.; 1320 in duobus sperris emptis pro emendacione ‥ porte iiij d. Rec. Leic. I 326; 1335 sperre eciam continebunt sex enchias in lat' et quatuor in spissicacione Reg. Ant. Ebor.; 1379 eidem, pro bordis, ~is, et aliis lignis, ad dictam turrim emptis ExchScot 608; 1434 in ix quercubus emptis pro ~is inde fiendis Fabr. York 53; 1460 pro octuaginta lignis dictis speris ExchScot VII 3.

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