Spere vs Spede - What's the difference?
spere | spede |
(architecture) The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
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* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Those capitaines whiche come to faight a field, cannot stand behind a wal, or behind bankes, nor where thei maie not be reached: therfore it is mete for them, seyng thei cannot finde a waie to defende them, to finde some mean, by the whiche thei maie be least hurte: nor thei cannot finde any other waie, then to prevente it quickly: the waie to prevent it, is to go to finde it out of hande, and hastely, not at leasure and in a heape: for that through spede , the blowe is not suffered to bee redoubled, and by the thinnesse, lesse nomber of menne maie be hurt. }}
As nouns the difference between spere and spede
is that spere is the fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house while spede is obsolete spelling of lang=en.spere
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(en noun)spede
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