v. Sc. rare. In 6 sparfal, 9 sperfle. [Alteration of SPARPLE v.] trans. To scatter or disperse; to squander.
Sparfeled in Greene’s Orpharion (1599), 48 is prob. an error for sparpeled.
c. 1575. Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Cl.), 194. Bot or this tyme, the said men of weare hade sparfallit the best of thame.
1808–25. in Jamieson (in form sperfle).
