Definitions

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  • noun A youth; a young man, a stripling.

Etymologies

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Apparently from spring, with an uncertain final element.

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Examples

  • Piercie; “I would advise you that such no more maketh a shooter, than doth one swallow make a summer — I have seen this springald of whom you speak, and if his hand can send forth his shafts as boldly as his tongue doth utter presumptuous speeches, I will own him as good an archer as Robin Hood.”

    The Monastery 2008

  • This mighty horseman was carried by his steed as lightly as the young springald by his Andalusian hackney.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • “Then,” said Wolfgang, “I must try myself: a plague on you, young springald, you have lost a noble chance!”

    Burlesques 2006

  • This mighty horseman was carried by his steed as lightly as the young springald by his Andalusian hackney.

    Burlesques 2006

  • “Then,” said Wolfgang, “I must try myself: a plague on you, young springald, you have lost a noble chance!”

    A Legend of the Rhine 2006

  • “And now, my young springald,” said the king to Lord

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • "Aye, truly, Martin, some young springald that hath risen among 'em since my time, a bloody rogue by account and one I would fain come alongside of --"

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • 'Then advance the springald to some post away from you,' the Lady Cicely said.

    The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • 'Art too patient with the springald,' the King said.

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • The heroine's small brother, with playful archaicism called "a springald," puts on her skirts and things and passes himself off for his sister or anybody else he pleases.

    Ponkapog Papers. 1904

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