† sponv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To secure (wine) from waste by tightening the cask with chips of wood.
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spon1541
1541 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 312 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Gaskyn wyne:..for spoynyng the same wine jd.
1574 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 448 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 For iij. hh. [= hogsheads] of clarred wyne, xij li. xv s.;..sponenge the wyne, vj d.
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