v. Sc. [f. BACK adv. + SPEIR, to question.] To re-examine, cross-examine. Back-speirer, cross-examiner.
a. 1689. Cleland, Poems (1697), 101 (Jam.). Several times affronted By slie back-spearers, and accounted An empty rogue.
1796. J. Ramsey, in Lockhart, Scott (1839), I. 348. It is however easier to backspeir you.
1860. Ramsay, Remin., I. 111. ‘I winna be back-spiered noo, Polly Fullarton.’
