E. Angl. dial. Also 7 spirkit, 9 sper-, spurket. [Of obscure origin: cf. prec. and SPIRGET.] A stout peg or hook on which to hang things.
1644. J. Carter, Nail & Wheel (1647), 14. The use of such a nail, or peg, or spirkit is to hang things out of hand.
1787. Marshall, Norfolk, Gloss., Spirket, a hook to hang things on.
1806. Bloomfield, Wild Flowers, 44. She passed a clean white hog … They’d kilt the day before. High on the spirket there it hung.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, Sperket. A wooden, hooked, large peg, not much curved, to hang saddles, harness, &c. on.
1899. Miss Betham-Edwards, Lord of Harvest, ii. 22. The big boiler hanging from the spirket now contained a bit of beef and a plum pudding.
