(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……
(a) A spindle for spinning thread; nokke of a spindel, a notch cut in a spindle to hold the yarn in place; slippen spindel, to take yarn off a spindle; (b) the amount of yarn collected on a spindle……
