Obs. exc. dial. Also 1 spranca, 5 spronke. [OE. spranca; cf. WFlem. spranke branch of a vein or artery.]
† 1. A shoot, sprout. Obs. rare.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 139. Stirps, styb, uel spranca. Ibid., 149. Plante, treowes sprancan.
a. 1100. in Napier, O. E. Glosses, 54/2. Labruscas, sprotu, sprancan.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XLI. 116. After dayes vij vp hem [peaches] take; By thenne out wol a spronke of hem be lette Vppon the shelle.
2. dial. The stump of a tree or tooth.
1838. in Holloway.
1847–. in dial. glossaries (Kent, Sussex, Surrey).
