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▪ I. spronk1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 1 spranca, 5 spronke.
[OE. spranca; cf. WFlem. spranke branch of a vein or artery.]
†1. A shoot, sprout. Obs. rare.
c1000ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 139 Stirps, styb, uel spranca. Ibid. 149 Plante, treowes sprancan. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses. 54/2 Labruscas, sprotu, sprancan. c1440Pallad. on Husb. xii. 116 After dayes vij vp hem [peaches] take; By thenne out wol a spronke of hem be lette Vppon the shelle.
2. dial. The stump of a tree or tooth.
1838in Holloway. 1847–in dial. glossaries (Kent, Sussex, Surrey).
▪ II. † spronk2 Obs.—1
[Cf. sprank2.]
A spark.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 205 Anon so he hadde þis word i-seid, þat fuyr aqueinte ech spronke. |