† spurchn.
Obsolete. rare.
(See quot. 1823.)
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spurch1295
firc1381
fir-treea1382
mast tree1597
white fir1605
Scotch fir1673
silver fir1707
Scotchman1807
fir balsam1810
Alpine fir1819
deal treea1825
pinsapo1839
fir-pine1843
red fir1852
grand fir1874
mountain balsam1878
Shasta fir1897
Santa Lucia fir1905
1295 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 5/8 memb. 8 Empcio meremii... Et xij. d. in .vij. spurches emptis de Roberto le piper.
1336–7 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/19/31) m. 5 Et in xxviij. spurch' emptis, vij. s. Et in lvj. boltis ferri videlicet pro quolibet spurch' ij., iiij. s viij. d.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 390 Spurshers, straight young fir-trees, the same, I believe, as firbauks and gofers.
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