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Definition of Sprang
1. a weaving technique to form an openwork mesh [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprang
Literary usage of Sprang
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (1915)
"So when the renowned lame god had finished all the armour, he took and laid it
before the mother of Achilles. Then she like a falcon sprang down from snowy ..."
2. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2001)
"... failure must have been only an accident; so she startled the boy out of his
sleep a second and a third time, at intervals THE PRINCE sprang UP. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"With the introduction of Christianity, schools sprang up in the French colony
even among the remotest ... As colonists increased, primary schools sprang up. ..."
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