Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The sparrow, Passer domesticus.
  • noun An old preterit of spring.
  • noun A prong of a fork, etc.
  • noun The stump of a tree or a tooth.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imperative Sprung.

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  • verb archaic Simple past of spring.

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  • Spring has sprong. Or is it sprung? Both sound unspringlike.

    April 17, 2017