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Wikkir sparris, n. pl. and coll. Also: wikker sparis, wikeris-, vikcar-, viker-, wykir-, wyk(k)er sparris, wicker spar(i)s, viccar sparis, weicker-, weacker spares. Coll. wikar spar, vaiker spair. [Wikkir n. and Spar n.] Rods, poles or beams of willow.pl. 1501 Treas. Acc. II 24.
For vj wykir sparris; ilk pece v d. 1507 Treas. Acc. III 395.
For foure double wikkir sparris and xij singill sparris to the barres … vij s. ij d. 1508–9 Reg. Soltre 161.
For vi wikker sparis to be twa ledderis 1531–2 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 104.
lx rauchtaris ii dosane of dalis xvi wyker [pr. wynker] sparris and ane hunder hek ringis to the stabill 1551 Dundee B. Ct. II 83b (6 Aug.).
Item twa hundreth wikeris sparris 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV 120.
Thrie dosane of doubill vikcar sparris 1598–9 Aberd. Shore Wk. Acc. 39.
Sax deillis and sax viker sparris 1603 Reg. Great S. 515/2.
Wykker sparris 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 329.
Sparrs called … dowble wicker sparis the hundreth, v li. single wicker sparis the hundreth, l s. 1615 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 352.
Weacker spares 1615 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 360.
For dressing James Robiesouns yaird with lath and weicker spares 1641 Stirling Chart. 153.
Viccar sparis 1661 Acts VII 253/2.
Wicker sparscoll. 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI 53.
Fyve hundreth vaiker spair at x li. the hundreth 1633 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 328.
Ane laid of wikar spar iii s.