Definition of Sperre

1. to bolt [v SPERRED, SPERRING, SPERRES] - See also: bolt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sperre

speromagnetic
speronara
sperre (current term)
sperred
sperres
sperring
sperrylite
sperrylites
sperse
spersed
sperses
spersing
sperst
sperthe
sperthes
spertiniite
spesh

Literary usage of Sperre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... to sperre (Spere A.) oute; exclud- ere, de-. a sperre (Spere A.) for А ... vel con/rin</ere. t)?e sperre (Spere A.) of y« firmament 3 ; spera, ..."

2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Spenser writes it sperre, and so do some others, but the word is the same. See sperre. The bar of a door was also termed a spar. See Minshew and Sherwood, ..."

3. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... m. pupillary border Pupillen-reactionen, pl. pupil reactions Pupillen-reflex, m. reaction to light Pupillen-sperre, /. atresia of pupil Pupillen ..."

4. Dizionario italiano ed inglese: = A Dictionary Italian and English ...by Ferdinando Altieri by Ferdinando Altieri (1726)
"Sporger la tefta in giíi, te lean dmn ene'i head. (. sperre ... sperre [levare] te rife, te rife up. ..."

5. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(sv Speer, vb. 6. 2); ' To sper, to shut, to fasten a door with a bar of wood' (Jamieson). ME. sperre, ' claudere' (Cath. ..."

6. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (2001)
"To "sperre," or "spar," (from the old Teutonic word, "sper- ren ") signifies, to " shut up, defend by Barrs," &c. And in this very Sense has Chaucer used ..."

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