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noun

Sprig n.

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

A youth; a lad; used humorously or in slight disparagement. "A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago."

A brad, or nail without a head.

(Naut.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.

verb

Sprig v. t. (past & past part. sprigged; pres. part. sprigging) To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

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Etymology of 'Sprig'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sprig" Quotes from Famous Books

... dream of wonder, dropped to his knees, and felt among the loose leaves, in the sunshine. And there were tufts of smooth foliage, all hidden away, and there came from them a smell rapturously sweet—arbutus on a sunlit hill. Kirk pulled a sprig and sat drinking in the deliciousness of it, till the ...

— The Happy Venture • Edith Ballinger Price

... "every thing that is a plant. Every different kind of sprig, or little weed, that you ...

— Rollo in Rome • Jacob Abbott

... the news that night, but it was not necessary; she had seen Ralph and Cicely coming through the garden gate without a leaf of lettuce or a single sprig ...

— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton

... are turbulent. If Dublin is simmering, Belfast is boiling. The breed is different. The Northerner is not demonstrative, is slow to anger, but being moved is not easily appeased. The typical Irishman, with his cutaway coat, his pipe stuck in his conical caubeen, his "sprig of shillelagh," or bludgeon the Donnybrook Fair hero who "shpinds half a-crown, Mates wid a frind An' (for love) knocks him down" is totally unknown in these regions. The men who by their ability and industry have lifted Ireland out of the slough, given her prosperity and comparative ...

— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

... chain-mail and his dinted steel cap showed that he was no holiday soldier, but one who was even now fresh from the wars. A white surcoat with the lion of St. George in red upon the centre covered his broad breast, while a sprig of new-plucked broom at the side of his head-gear gave a touch of gayety and grace to ...

— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle

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