† spaughtn.
Obsolete. rare.
A youth, lad, or stripling.
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1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Eunuch iv. iv, in Terence in Eng. 161 That other came beeing a spaught of sixteene yeeres old.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 138 Wee give usually to a spaught for holdinge of the oxe plough 4 nobles or perhapps 30s. per annum.
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 42 Sir, here's a Spaught that came fra Taunton.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 68 A Spaut or Spowte, a youth.
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