sprit

n. 斜撑帆杆

发音

其它 /spɹɪt/

词形变化

sprits 复数 sprits sprits 三单 spritted spritting spritting 现在分词 spritted 过去式 spritted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.

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  2. 2.

    A shoot; a sprout.

v.
  1. 1.

    To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.

  2. 2.

    To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

spar

整体词 1

spritsail

词源

From Middle English sprete, from Old English sprēot (“pole, pike, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *spreut, related to Proto-West Germanic *sprutō (“shoot, sprout”). Cognate with West Frisian spriet (“sprit, spoke”), Dutch spriet (“a sprit, blade, spar, shoot, sprig”), Middle High German spriez (“sprout, twig”).

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