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spicare

spicare [CL], to glean. b to pick over, sift through. 1234 debet metere domino ‥ dimidiam acram; et in eadem dimidia acra poterit uxor ejus ~are ‥ unam pugnatam de spicis Cust. Glast. 65; 1401 ordinat’ est quod nullus spicator ~abit blada in autumpno MS Beds RO BorBF11/3.  b 1328 in mulieribus conductis pro frumento ~ando pro mundo semine habendo, iij s. Ac. Man. Wint..

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