Sc. = SPRET. Also collect.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 268. It becomes instantly filled with sprits, rushes and other aquatics.
1807. Ess. Highl. Soc., III. 469. Bog ground is for the most part covered with sprit, of the smaller sort of which they make what they call bog hay.
1866. Chambers’s Encycl., VIII. 373/2. Many marshy and boggy places abound in some of the species having leafy stems and the leaves jointed internally, popularly called Sprots or Sprits.
1883. G. M‘Michael, Notes Way thr. Ayrshire, 90. The Afton descends between rocky banks, mostly covered with bent and sprit.
