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单词 spong
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spongn.

Etymology: variant of spang n.3
Now dialect.
1. A long narrow piece or strip (of ground or land).
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip
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1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ix. 185 Shiloh succeeds (in a narrow southern spong of this Tribe).
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 22 A spong of ground somewhat nigh a thousand miles,..and not bearing a proportionable breadth.
a1800– in dialect glossaries (E. Anglia, Leic., Northampt.)
2. (See quot. 1811) Obsolete. rare.
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1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude II. xxix. 103 A laboring man gave notice that he was going to drive the tumbril (two-wheeled cart) to the spong (drift-way for cattle).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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