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springe

[ sprinj ]

noun

  1. a snare for catching small game.


verb (used with object)

, springed, spring·ing.
  1. to catch in a springe.

verb (used without object)

, springed, spring·ing.
  1. to set a springe or springes.

springe

/ sprɪndʒ /

noun

  1. a snare set to catch small wild animals or birds and consisting of a loop attached to a bent twig or branch under tension
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr to set such a snare
  2. tr to catch (small wild animals or birds) with such a snare
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of springe1

1200–50; Middle English, variant of sprenge a snare, literally, something that is made to spring, derivative of sprengen to make spring, Old English sprengan, causative of springan to spring
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Word History and Origins

Origin of springe1

C13: related to Old English springan to spring
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Example Sentences

For I will blesse her & geue the a sonne of her and will blesse her: so that people/ ye and kynges of people shall springe of her.

But these forest creatures that you take,—will they not bite against springe and snare?

During this discussion Ellangowan was somewhat like a woodcock caught in his own springe.

Bow-traps are especially favoured, but the springe for birds and the pitfalls for large animals are not despised.

A rare eye, too, is his at the setting of a springe for woodcocks, or tracking a maukin on the snow.

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