[f. SPLAY v.2] Spaying.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 673. Another part of a good Svvinehard is, to looke to the gelding of his Svvyne, and splaying of the females.

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1611.  Cotgr., Chastrement, a gelding, libbing, speying, splaying.

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