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Quotation dates: 1511
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Spicery, n.2 [Cf. ME spike (1345-6), spyk (1390) a large strong nail, MDu. spīker, spijcker.] ? Nails. — 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV 288.
Fabrica Nauium … For the fraucht of vijxxiiij gune stanis, xj pece small cordalis, ix boltis gret canves, ij½ barrellis spicery, iij gret cordalis, xvijc wiflyne brocht fra Flandris to Leith vij li.
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