Definition of "spere" []

• The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house. (noun)

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• "Also zee have herd me seye, that Jerusalem is in the myddes of the world; and that may men preven and schewen there, be a spere, that is pighte in to the erthe, upon the hour of mydday, whan it is equenoxium, that schewethe no schadwe on no syde."
• "Mrs. Hawkins lived within her four walls and called that, her "spere," and spoke of her husband as "he.""
• "Mrs Hawkins lived within her four walls and called that her "spere," and spoke of her husband as "he.""