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spurcha

spurcha [ME spurche], ‘spurch’, piece of timber used for various purposes, esp. in shipbuilding. 1296 in vj ~is emptis de Edmundo Keleman ix d. Ac. Galley Newcastle 178; 1296 in duabus ~is ad idem Wyndagium emptis de Edmundo Kelman ij d. ob. Ib. 182; 1337 in xxviij spurch’ emptis vij s. et in lvj boltis ferri viz. pro quolibet spurch’ ij (KR Ac 19/31 m. 5) OED s. v. spurch.

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