Sc. Obs. = SPEER sb.1
1768. Ross, Helenore, 136. I’s no seek near the fire,—Let me but rest my weary banes, Behind backs at the spire.
1806. R. Jamieson, Pop. Ballads, II. 406. The spire in a cottage, is properly the stem or leg of an earth-fast couple, reaching from the floor to the top of the wall.
