Spane sb.

[a. ON. spán-n, Du. spaan, or G. span († spane), = OE. spón chip: see SPOON sb.] A chip or slip of wood.

1602.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 146. Spygotts and fawset and for wood spanes, iij^d.

1891.  Baring-Gould, Urith, I. vii. 105. At the fire-breast burnt, what was called a ‘spane,’ that is, a slip of deal steeped in resin, which lighted the housewife at her operations at the fire.