Obs.–1 [ad. older Flem. sporckenhout (Kilian).] The black alder.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 258/1. The moone beinge in the signe Libra, cut then off the hayre, and burye the sayede hayre vnder a tree of Sporckenwoode.
