dial. Also 9 sporring. [f. SPUR v.2]

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  1.  pl. The banns of marriage published in church.

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1787.  Grose, Prov. Gloss., Spurrings, bans of marriage.

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1829–.  in dial. glossaries, etc. (Yks., Lanc., Derby, Linc., Rutland, Nottingham, Cornwall).

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1862.  Life amongst Colliers, 172. Our maids were comely and apt, the young colliers gallant, so many a ‘spurrins’ went from our house.

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  2.  (See quot.)

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1888.  T. North, Bells & Bell Lore, 94. At Barnoldby-le-Beck, Lea, and other places this ringing is called giving the [newly-wedded] couple their ‘spurring,’ or ‘sporrings.’

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