Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An old spelling of spear, speer, sphere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
  • noun obsolete A sphere.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • 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.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • 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.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Mrs. Hawkins lived within her four walls and called that, her "spere," and spoke of her husband as "he."

    The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905

  • Mrs Hawkins lived within her four walls and called that her "spere," and spoke of her husband as "he."

    Sawtooth Ranch B. M. Bower 1905

  • Therefore, when spear was spelt "spere," the cognomen should be spelt "Shakespere"; when spear was spelt "speare," as it was in the sixteenth century, the name should be spelt "Shakespeare."

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • I think if I entitled a post "Live Nude Tolkien," I'd be the most visiting blog in the 'spere.

    At least I didn't slight Tolkien Richard Nokes 2006

  • One answer from an educators perspective: The classroom is now not bounded by the four walls and that in a real sense things that are the other side of the world, whether that be round a spere or in a straight line, are still brought in much closer, things are more accessible mobile and ubiquitous.....

    Archive 2006-12-01 Julie Lindsay 2006

  • One answer from an educators perspective: The classroom is now not bounded by the four walls and that in a real sense things that are the other side of the world, whether that be round a spere or in a straight line, are still brought in much closer, things are more accessible mobile and ubiquitous.....

    Flat Classroom Conversations: Part 3 Julie Lindsay 2006

  • I have a question for those knowledgable in the American political spere.

    yikes 2006

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