[f. SPRINGE sb.]
1. trans. To catch in a springe or snare. Also refl. Freq. fig.
a. 1616[?]. Beaum. & Fl., Q. of Corinth, IV. iii. We springe our selves, we sink in our own bogs.
1812. Combe, Syntax, Picturesque, XV. And what’s still worse, he’ll springe a hare.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VIII. 928. An active poacher … tired of springeing game so long upon my acres.
1891. Blackw. Mag., CL. 243/1. Vast quantities of snipe … are netted or springed.
2. intr. To set snares.
1895. Owen & Boulger, The Country, Feb., 54. The poor people springe for him [the snipe] in the moister parts.
