Also 5 spek, 7 speak. [a. MDu. or MLG. spēke SPOKE sb.]

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  1.  A handspike.

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1366.  in Nicolas, Hist. Royal Navy (1847), II. 473. [For one other] wyndas [bought, with four] spekes [pertaining to the same, 12 d.].

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1417.  in Riley, Mem. Lond. (1868), 656. [Taking in his hands a certain staff commonly called a] spek.

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  2.  A wheel-spoke.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 3264. The spekes was splentide alle with speltis of siluer.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 353/1. A Speke (A Speke of a qwele), radius.

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1485.  in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees), 374. xxj axiltrees,… x gang de felghes,… iiij gang de spekes.

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1617–8.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 228. xj gange of fellice [felloes],… viij gange of speaks.

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