Now dial. [var. of SPRENGE v.] intr. To sprinkle water.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Wks. (Grosart), V. 286. Our Norwich … was a poore fisher towne, and the sea spawled and springed vp to her common stayres. [Cf. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia (a 1825), 321 Springe, to spread lightly; to sprinkle.]
