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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1436-1474

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Sperver, n. Also: spervoure, (sparwort). [Late ME and e.m.E. (freq. north.) sperver (1440-1), sparver (1444), OF esprevier (1080 in Greimas), espervier, Frankish *sparwari.] A canopy for a cradle. —1436 Exchequer Rolls IV 682.
Pro quadam circumferencia pro lecto domini nostri regis vocata sperver
1448 Exchequer Rolls V 299.
In viginti ulnis panni linei lati … pro uno spervoure pro rege … xxxiij s. iiij d. Et pro filo empto et deliberato eidem pro predicto spervoure, xvj d.
1474 Treasurer's Accounts I 41.
For iiij½ elne of tartar for a sparwort abone his [sc. the prince's] creddil

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