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noun
A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A shoot; a sprout.
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verb
To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
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verb
To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
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noun
a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spar
History
From Middle English sprete, from Old English sprēot (“pole, pike, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *spreut, related to Proto-West Germanic *sprutō (“shoot, sprout”). Cognate with West Frisian spriet (“sprit, spoke”), Dutch spriet (“a sprit, blade, spar, shoot, sprig”), Middle High German spriez (“sprout, twig”).
Variant of spurt, spirt (“to sprout, burst”).
Across languages
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