v. Obs. rare. In 6 spone, spoyn. [f. spon SPOON sb. or MLG. spôn: cf. G. spänen in the same sense.] trans. To secure (wine) from waste by tightening the cask with chips of wood.
1541. Rutland MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), IV. 312. Gaskyn wyne:… for spoynyng the same wine jd.
1574. in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (Hist. MSS. Comm.), 448. For iij. hh. [= hogsheads] of clarred wyne, xij li. xv s.;… sponenge the wyne, vj d.
