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spika, ~us [ME spik], large nail, spike or stake made from iron or wood and used esp. in building and thatching, spike-nail, thatching pin.. 1276 in virgis emptis ad spicas et waluram stabuli xj d. Ac. Stratton 190; 1282 in servicio Willelmi Kyng, fabri, qui fecit ~as ad planch[as] jungendas ad gistas super cameram predictam de cc libris ferri, vj s. KR Ac 460/27 m. A 2(d); 1307 in c de magna spyka pro mola emendanda MinAc Wistow 29; 1320 ad parietem ejusdem domus cum spykis ‥ corigend’ MinAc 965/4; 1336 in ml vjc clar’ spicorum emptis DL MinAc 242/3886 m. 3; 1420 pro stramine ‥ et ~is Ac. Churchw. Bath 27; 1460 Johanni Attekyns pro ij mille et dcc splicis ad idem [tenementum] Ib. 55; eorum capita in excelsis locis ‥ civitatum super spicas ferreas exaltata Plusc. XI 10; 1480 pro iij ml et ccc spekis diversis tenementis Ac. Churchw. Bath 82.

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