Now dial. [Metathetic form of SPRIT sb.2 Cf. SPURT sb.2] A sprout or shoot.
1634. Holland, Pliny, I. 446. These Filberds … within their belly … haue in the mids a little chit or spirt [1601 spurt] as if it were a nauill.
1882–. in western dial. glossaries (Warw., Worc., Heref.).
