Also 8 bomspare. [f. Du. boom tree, pole + spar spar.] ‘A spar of a larger kind.’ Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., 1867.
1660. Act 12 Chas. II., iv. Sched., Bomespars the hundred, containing 120.
1727. W. Mather, Yng. Man’s Comp., 410. For which they import … Bomspares.
