| 单词 |
sprank |
| 释义 |
▪ I. sprank1 In 6 spranck(e. [perh. f. prank v.4, but mod. dial. a good sprank ‘a fair quantity’ is associated with sprank ‘a sprinkling’.] A show or display.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 48 Where oft the flouds doe floe vpon the beaten banck; Their sandes debarre the grasse to groe, to spread his Aprill spranck. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 416 b, Besides a number of old notable men and no small sprancke of the newer sort also. ▪ II. † sprank2 Obs.—1 [= MDu. spranke (Du. and WFris. sprank).] A spark.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 326 b, The superstitions thereof [being] wholly rooted out, they would revive the lively sprankes [L. lumen] of the auncient Church being vtterly extinct. |

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