springer

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A springer spaniel.
2. n. Western U.S. A cow about to give birth.
3. n. Architecture The bottom stone of an arch resting on the impost.
4. n. Architecture The point or place where the curve of an arch or vault begins.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which springs, in any sense. A growing plant, shrub, or tree; a sapling.
2. n. A youth; a lad.
3. n. In architecture:
4. n. The impost or place where the vertical support to an arch terminates, and the curve of the arch begins.
5. n. The lower voussoir or bottom stone of an arch, which lies immediately upon the impost.
6. n. The bottom stone of the coping of a gable.
7. n. The rib of a groined roof or vault. See cross-springer.
8. n. A dog of a class of spaniels resembling the cocker, used, in sporting, to spring or flush game. See spaniel.
9. n. The springbok.
10. n. A grampus.
11. n. In old music, a grace or embellishment, consisting of an after-note one degree above the principal note: as

Wiktionary

1. n. A person that springs.
2. n. Anything that springs.
3. n. A spring salmon.
4. n. A springer antelope.
5. n. A stone at the base of an arch (from which the arch springs).
6. n. A springing cow.
7. n. A springer spaniel.
8. n. A springbok.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
2. n. obsolete A young plant.
3. n. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
4. n. The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
5. n. The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
6. n. (Zoöl.) The grampus.
7. n. (Zoöl.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
8. n. (Zoöl.) A species of antelope; the springbok.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white
2. n. the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs
3. n. a cow about to give birth