Obs. rare. Also spey(e. [a. MFlem. speye (14th cent., also in F. texts espeye; Kilian spije; mod.WFlem. speie, spei), related to MFlem. spoye (Kilian spuje, Flem. and Du. spui) in the same sense.] A sluice. (Cf. SPAYER.)
1415. in Riley, Mem. Lond. (1868), 615. [A watergate, called a] scluys, [or a] speye.
1429. Cov. Leet Bk., 121. The residu of the money spended apon the makyng of the Town dyche, & the spey atte Gosford yate. Ibid. (1451), 258. The whiche portecoles, Spayes & Cheynes ben made & myche part of the dykes clansed.
