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語源 1

From 中期英語 sprete, from 古期英語 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”).

名詞

sprit (plural sprits)

1. (nautical) A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
   • 1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Heart of Darkness:

     ... and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

2. A shoot; a sprout.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

     the Maltſter will ſtir his Barley Couches till the Sprit begins to fork , five or ſix times a day or more ; it being always his Care to keep them from drying too much on the outſides

下位語

• (supporting spar in spritsail rig): bowsprit

派生語

語源 2

Variant of spurt, spirt (“to sprout, burst”).

動詞

sprit (third-person singular simple present sprits, present participle spritting, simple past and past participle spritted)

1. To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
2. To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

アナグラム

• Strip, TRIPS, spirt, stirp, strip, trips