from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A pole that extends diagonally across a fore-and-aft sail from the lower part of the mast to the peak of the sail.
noun A bowsprit.
from The Century Dictionary.
To sprout; bud; germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; eject; spurt.
noun A rush: same as sprat, 1.
noun See the quotation.
noun A sprout; a shoot.
noun A stick; a pole; especially, a boatman's pole.
noun Nautical:
noun A small pole, spar, or boom which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.
noun The bowsprit.
To split.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
intransitive verb To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
noun obsolete A shoot; a sprout.
transitive verb obsolete To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
noun (Naut.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun nautical A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old English sprēot, pole; see sper- in Indo-European roots.]
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Old English sprēot
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As for your shower, we will all be there in sprit, wishing you and your little family many blessings!
The sprit is a long pole, one end of which is fixed to the lowest _innermost_ corner, near the mast, and the other end extending to the highest _outermost_ corner; thus it lies diagonally across the sail.
And that’s kind of really good, for us, because there’s a mayor who’s really interested in the arts, and who is very supportive, and there’s an entrepreneurial sprit, which is very creative rather than relying on some big institution.
Hegel is neither a theist or an atheist: he is moving to transcend the whole game, and speaks only of 'sprit', a dangerous term that will cause him perhaps to slide back into the morass of the bad dialectic of divinity.
Just to add a little bit more, If I am not allowed to carry a sharp object of any kind onto a plane including nail clippers, why can I carry wine a sprit bottles.
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