| 单词 |
sprink |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † sprink, n. Obs. rare.
[Cf. sprink v., and G. (rare) sprenke freckle, NFris. sprēnk a sprinkle.]
1. A sprinkler or holy water brush.
1566in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 75 A water tankard for our holy water with sprinck.
2. A sprinkle.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie A viij b, The Talbot true..Lost neuer noblenesse, By sprinck of spot distayned.
▪ II. † sprink, a. Obs.—1
Smart, spruce.
1602Breton Wonders Worth Hearing Wks. (Grosart) II. 9/1 His apparell most Silke and Ueluet, his cloake and his hat well brushed, his ruffes well set,..a sprinke youth.
▪ III. sprink, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[Cf. sprinkle v.1, and the synonymous G. (rare) sprenken, NFris. sprēnk(e.]
trans. To sprinkle.
c1400in Househ. Ord. (1790) 469 With a feder sprinke and spot the congour. c1440Psalmi Penit. (1894) 28 With holi water thu schalt me sprinke. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 40 The adder woonted..to sprincke hir strong poison vpon cattell. 1596Warner Alb. Eng. xi. lxiv. (1602) 276 With yearely hallowed Mosca, which the Primate hauing blest, He thinks..him in Heauen already whom the primat sprinks with it. 1632Heywood Iron Age ii. iii. i, Fatall Pyrhus..That in the shadow of this sacred place Durst sprinke the childs blood in the fathers face. 1866–89in Lincoln dial. glossaries.
Hence † ˈsprinker, a sprinkler. Obs.—0
1648Hexham ii, Een Quispel, a Sprincker, or a thing to cast water upon [sic]. |
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