springe
/spɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ay, springes to catch woodcocks"
- "Look how a mavis, or a pigeòn, / In any grove caught with a springe or net […]"
- "With hairy Sprindges we the Birds betray"
- "’twas my joy / With store of springes o’er my shoulder hung / To range the open heights where woodcocks run / Along the smooth green turf."
- "By an active poacher who had hit a hare / From the other barrel, tired of springeing game"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sprengen, from Old English sprenġan, sprenġċan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprangijan, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną (“to cause to spring”). See sprinkle.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sprengen, sprenġan, *sprangijan, *sprangijaną, spreng