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- Spence - n. - A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
- Spence - n. - The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
- Spencer - n. - One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
- Spencer - n. - A short jacket worn by men and by women.
- Spencer - n. - A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].