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kill (a deer) with a sword or other such stabbing or cutting weapon
- 1406–13: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Master of Game (Digby manuscript 182), prologue⁽¹⁾ and chapter xxxiii⁽²⁾
- ⁽¹⁾ And after whann the hert is spaied and dede he vndothe hym.
- ⁽²⁾ Þen shulde who so be moste maister þere byd somme of þe hunters go spay hym euen behynde þe shulder forwarde to þe herte.
= Modern English verb spay
- 1406–13: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, The Master of Game (Digby manuscript 182), chapter xi
- And bycause þei shuld not lese her tyme, men make hem yspayed, saue þose men will kepe open to bere whelpes.