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▪ I. † ˈspalliard1 Obs. rare.
Also 7 spaliard, 9 spallier.
[Of obscure origin: cf. spadiard.]
A labourer engaged in tin-mining.
1625Laws Stannaries xii. (1808) 21 A labouring tinner, a blower, owner of blowing-houses, a spalliard, or adventurer. 1630J. Doddridge Dvtchy of Cornewall 93 The laborious search for Tynne in those dayes, euen as it is vsed by the Spaliard at this day with great industrie and paines. [1836R. Polwhele Hist. Cornw. Gloss. 91/2 Spallier, a labourer in tin-works. See Acts of the Stannary Parliaments.]
▪ II. spalliard2
dial. form of espalier.
1886F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-Bk. 696 Spalliard (spaal·yurd), sb., espalier, a trained fruit tree. I think, sir, we must dig up that spalliard plum. 1920[see pleach n.]. |