ppl. a. [pa. pple. of SPRING v.1]
1. That has sprung up or arisen. In combs. as first-, high-, new-sprung. Also with up.
1575. Gascoigne, Flowers, Dan Bartholmew, Wks. 1907, I. 101. God he knoweth … who pluckt hir first sprong rose.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IX. 415. The high-sprung Woods, threatning the clouds.
1661. J. Davies, Civil Warres, 373. This utterly dissipated the power of the new sprung Committee of Safety.
1842. J. Aiton, Domest. Econ. (1857), 150. The progress of his crops, from the scarce sprung-braird to the whitening harvest.
1895. Daily News, 25 March, 8/6. The newly sprung-up competition from the United States makers of this … tool.
2. Cracked, split.
1597. J. Payne, Royal Exch., 33. Besyde myne acquayntans with your sprung masts, torne sales from the yarde.
1666. Dryden, Ann. Mirab., cxliii. Tall Norway Fir, their masts in Battel spent, And English Oak sprung Leaks and Planks restore.
1781. Naval Chron., XI. 289. The main mast is a sprung mast.
1852. H. Newland, Tractarianism, 133. Some mixing mortar,… some strengthening the sprung beams.
1899. E. Phillpotts, Human Boy, 12. Browne … made that noise in his throat like a sprung bat.
3. Made to fly up.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. III. Colonies, 431. Our amaz’d first Grand-sires faintly fled, And, like sprung Partridge, every-where did spred.
4. techn. (See quot.)
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 601. The bevel … is termed the spring of the plank, and the edge thus bevelled is called the sprung edge.
