English

Alternative forms

• springal

Noun

springald ‎(plural springalds)

1. (now rare, archaic) A youth; a young man, a stripling.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     There came two Springals of full tender yeares, / Farre thence from forrein land where they did dwell […].

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     this same springald, who conceals his name, and despises our proffered hospitality, hath already gained one prize, and may now afford to let others have their turn.