sprit.
A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
Meaning & usage
A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
A shoot; a sprout.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
Where this word comes from
Variant of spurt, spirt (“to sprout, burst”).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.