spuce

And to hell we'll shove shavings, spuce rind, and withrod

The Tobacco Song 1997

But shortly after, when he threw himself on the spuce-boughs near them, the boys heard him murmur, deep in his throat, as if he took strength from the words: --

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

About this time he commenced his exami - nation of the celebrated controversy between the Cathotics and LoUards, which occupied the larger portion of his time and talents, for the spuce ofgOyears.

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth ... 1813