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springe
[ sprinj ]
noun
- a snare for catching small game.
verb (used with object)
- to catch in a springe.
verb (used without object)
- to set a springe or springes.
springe
/ sprɪndʒ /
noun
- a snare set to catch small wild animals or birds and consisting of a loop attached to a bent twig or branch under tension
verb
- intr to set such a snare
- tr to catch (small wild animals or birds) with such a snare
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of springe1
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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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