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▪ I. sprote1 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 sprota, 4–5, 9 sprote, 5, 9 sprot, 9 spro(o)at.
[Common Teut.: OE. sprota, = MDu. sprote, sproot (Du. sport), MLG. sprote, sprate, OHG. sprozzo (MHG. sprozze, G. sprosse), ON. sproti, related to sprout v. OE. had also sprot neut., which may be partly represented in the later form with short vowel.]
†1. A shoot, sprout, twig, rod. Obs.
c1050in Wr.-Wülcker 378 Clauus, næᵹl oððe sprota. a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses 83 Sarmentorum, sprotena. a1300Havelok 1142, I ne haue hws, y ne haue cote, Ne I ne haue stikke, y ne haue sprote. c1425Noah's Ark in Non-Cycle Mystery Plays 22 For I have neither ruff nor ryff, Spyer, sprund, sprout, no sprot [rime boat]. c1460Townley Myst. ii. 290, I wold that it were in thi throte, Fyr, & shefe, and ich a sprote.
b. pl. Small sticks or twigs; bits of branches blown from trees. Also sprote-wood.
1825in Jamieson Suppl. 1847in Halliwell. 1854–in dial. glossaries (Northampt., Yks., Sc.).
2. A chip, shiver, or splinter.
Freq. c 1400, in phr. in, into, on sprotes.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xxii. 238 The Tronchouns flen in sprotes and peces alle aboute the Halle. c1400Destr. Troy 5783 Speiris into sprottes spronge ouer hede. c1400Sege Jerus. (E.E.T.S.) 554 Spakly her speres on sprotes þey ȝeden.
1825Jamieson Suppl., Sprot, a chip of wood, flying from the tool of a carpenter.
▪ II. † sprote2 Obs.
[= MLG. (and LG.) sprote, sprute, MDu. sproete (Du. sproet), G. sprosse, † sprusse, perhaps related to prec.]
A spot on the skin; a freckle. Hence † sproted ppl. a., spotted. Obs.
a1400–50Stockholm Med. MS. 145 A good watir to purgyn a mannys face of sprotys. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 233 Eyen that bene whit y-freklet, or i-sprotid, or blake. |