Word Meanings - SPENCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. Promptorium Parvulorum.

Related words: (words related to SPENCER)

• SPENCE
  despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately
• SPENCER
  One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. Promptorium Parvulorum.
• BUTTERY
  Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
• DISPENCE
  See DISPENSE