Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanes
Literary usage of Spanes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Gardener: A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying Out of by William Cobbett (1854)
"... should be deep ; and, in general, with a hoe that has spanes instead of a mere
flat plate In short, a sort of prong in the posture of a hoe And the ..."
2. The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613 by John Saris, Ernest Mason Satow (1900)
"... vnder the Kings Majesty of spanes forte. I willed Mr. Wickham to desire them
to com aboard. ... And that my coming was to doe his Majesty of spanes ..."
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