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spartha

spartha, ~us, ~um [ME sparth], long-handled, broad-bladed battleaxe; b (in gl., perh. assoc. w. 1 sparus). 1294 in suburbio ville Dublinie ‥ predictum Johannem insultavit de una hachia que vocatur sparth', cujus capud fuit de ferro et calibe de longitudine decem pollicum et latitudine sex pollicum et cujus hachie telum de fraxino longitudinis sex pedum et grossitudinis quatuor pollicum CoramR 138 r. 53d.; 1328 item una spertha (KR Ac 239/13) Anal. Hib. XXIV 213; 1340 viginti et quatuor ~as manuales ‥ pro expedicione guerre Cl 167 m. 46; 1364 per parvam serjiantiam unius sparth' in libero socagio G. S. Alb. III 10; 1381 cepit ‥ j ~am precii vj d. SessPCambs 50.  b rumex, genus teli simile sparto Gallico Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 508.

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