vbl. sb. [f. SPULYIE v.] Spoiling, despoiling; spoliation.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIII. 457. Thai dispendit haly that day In spoulȝeing and riches taking.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 470. Spoylynge, or spolyynge, spoliacio, depredacio.
1647. Extr. Burgh Recs. Stirling, 193. The actis and ordinances … anent slotting and spuilyeing of flesche.
1691. Jedburgh Council Records, 19 March (MS.), For his wrongous spulzieing and awaytakeing of certaine stones out of the Minister’s yeard dyke.
