Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of sparth.

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Examples

  • "Beware how you challenge my Maid," said she at last, "for she fights but on horseback, with lance and sperthe, {20} and the Duc d'Alencon has seen her tilt at the ring, and has given her the best steed in his stables, whereon she shall soon lead her army to Orleans."

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

  • She smote on a knight's shield, her sword shivered in that stroke, she caught her steel sperthe into her hand, and struck and hewed amain, and there were empty saddles round her.

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

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