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Sprung. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Sprung ppl. a. [pa. pple. of SPRING v.1]

1   1.  That has sprung up or arisen. In combs. as first-, high-, new-sprung. Also with up.

2 1575.  Gascoigne, Flowers, Dan Bartholmew, Wks. 1907, I. 101. God he knoweth … who pluckt hir first sprong rose.

3 1632.  Lithgow, Trav., IX. 415. The high-sprung Woods, threatning the clouds.

4 1661.  J. Davies, Civil Warres, 373. This utterly dissipated the power of the new sprung Committee of Safety.

5 1842.  J. Aiton, Domest. Econ. (1857), 150. The progress of his crops, from the scarce sprung-braird to the whitening harvest.

6 1895.  Daily News, 25 March, 8/6. The newly sprung-up competition from the United States makers of this … tool.

7   2.  Cracked, split.

8 1597.  J. Payne, Royal Exch., 33. Besyde myne acquayntans with your sprung masts, torne sales from the yarde.

9 1666.  Dryden, Ann. Mirab., cxliii. Tall Norway Fir, their masts in Battel spent, And English Oak sprung Leaks and Planks restore.

10 1781.  Naval Chron., XI. 289. The main mast is a sprung mast.

11 1852.  H. Newland, Tractarianism, 133. Some mixing mortar,… some strengthening the sprung beams.

12 1899.  E. Phillpotts, Human Boy, 12. Browne … made that noise in his throat like a sprung bat.

13   3.  Made to fly up.

14 1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. III. Colonies, 431. Our amaz’d first Grand-sires faintly fled, And, like sprung Partridge, every-where did spred.

15   4.  techn. (See quot.)

16 1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 601. The bevel … is termed the spring of the plank, and the edge thus bevelled is called the sprung edge.

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