springeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 sprengen, from 古期英語 sprenġan, sprenġċan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprangijan, from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną (“to cause to spring”). See sprinkle.

動詞

springe (third-person singular simple present springes, present participle springing or springeing, simple past and past participle springed)

1. (obsolete) To sprinkle; to scatter.

語源 2

Inherited from 中期英語 spreng, a variant of spring with the form of sprengen.

名詞

springe (plural springes)

1. (obsolete) A snare.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 114:

     Ay, springes to catch woodcocks

   • 1614: The Odysses of Homer by George Chapman, book 23 line 594

     Look how a mavis, or a pigeòn, / In any grove caught with a springe or net […]

   • 1714: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, 2nd edn., canto 2 line 25

     With hairy Sprindges we the Birds betray

   • c. 1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude‎, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 16:

     ’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.

動詞

springe (third-person singular simple present springes, present participle springing or springeing, simple past and past participle springed)

1. (transitive) To catch in a springe; to ensnare.
   • 1866, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, and Other Poems, page 310:

     By an active poacher who had hit a hare / From the other barrel, tired of springeing game

アナグラム

• Persing, Spigner, pingers

名詞

springe

1. dative singular of spring

名詞

springe

1. alternative form of spryng

語源 2

動詞

springe

1. alternative form of sprengen

語源 3

動詞

springe

1. alternative form of spryngen