dial. [var. of SPRENT sb.2]

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  1.  A springe or snare.

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1781.  J. Hutton, Tour to Caves (ed. 2), Gloss., Sprint, a gin for catching birds with.

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1892.  H. A. Macpherson, Vertebr. Fauna of Lakeland, p. lxxxvii. (E.D.D.). Richard Holme used to set scores of sprints when a boy. Ibid. (1897), Hist. Fowling, 246. The ‘Sprint’ employed in the north of England for catching Woodcock.

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  2.  A spring. (Cf. SPRENT sb.2 2 b.)

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1897.  W. Jamie, in Bards of Angus & Mearns, 235/1. Some queer auld knives wi’ double sprint.

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