rare. Also 5 spoliar, 6 spulyear. [f. as prec.] A spoiler.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 7. Feiþful curats owen to sorowe as wel of þe spoling of þer sogetis, as also of þe synne of þe spoliars.
1562–3. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 231. The ressait … makis the said Thomas expres spulyear and approvar of the spulye libellit.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 62. They forc’d and flappit to the yird That spulyier and fae.
