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Webster 1913 Edition

Sprent

Sprent

(sprĕnt)
,
obs.
p.
p.
of
Sprenge
. Sprinkled.
All the ground with purple blood was
sprent
.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Sprent

SPRENT

,
pp.
Sprinkled. [See Sprinkle.]

Definition 2025

sprent

sprent

English

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Verb

sprent ‎(third-person singular simple present sprents, present participle sprenting, simple past and past participle sprented)

  1. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To leap; bound; move quickly; dart
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Etymology 2

From Middle English spreynt, spreind, yspreynd ‎(“sprinkled”), past participle of Middle English sprengen ‎(“to sprinkle”), from Old English sprengan ‎(“to cause to spring; scatter”), from Proto-Germanic *sprangijaną, causative of *springaną ‎(“to spring; jump”). More at spring.

Verb

sprent

  1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of spreng

Adjective

sprent ‎(comparative more sprent, superlative most sprent)

  1. (archaic) sprinkled
Derived terms

Etymology

From Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintaną ‎(“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprendʰ- ‎(“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- ‎(“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen ‎(“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta ‎(“to startle”), Icelandic spretta ‎(“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).

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