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▪ I. † speke1 Obs.—1 [ad. L. spec-us.] A cave.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 270 Monkes..In spekes an in spelonkes selden speken togideres. ▪ II. † speke2 Also 5 spek, 7 speak. [a. MDu. or MLG. spēke spoke n.] 1. A handspike.
1366in Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 473 [For one other] wyndas [bought, with four] spekes [pertaining to the same, 12 d.]. 1417in Riley Mem. Lond. (1868) 656 [Taking in his hands a certain staff commonly called a] spek. 2. A wheel-spoke.
a1400Morte Arth. 3264 The spekes was splentide alle with speltis of siluer. 1483Cath. Angl. 353/1 A Speke (A Speke of a qwele), radius. 1485in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 374, xxj axiltrees,..x gang de felghes,..iiij gang de spekes. 1617–8Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 228, xj gange of fellice [felloes],..viij gange of speaks. ▪ III. speke etc., obs. f. speak, etc. |