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Definition of Sprigging
1. sprig [v] - See also: sprig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprigging
Literary usage of Sprigging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1904)
"sprigging, or embroidering, of muslins and linens is chiefly a northern industry
also, ... Some girls do sit at it so, following sprigging as an occupation ..."
2. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1905)
"sprigging " is a term now largely out of use arid it means " Embroidering with
... 1840 is recorded as the year in which the sprigging Industry was started, ..."
3. Ireland: Industrial and Agricultural by William P. Coyne (1902)
"In 1840 the Brothers Lindsay started the sprigging industry, which, for a time,
gave employment to a considerable number of females, who had been thrown out ..."
4. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"sprigging.—When narrow and inherently weak and otherwise unsupported sections of
sand ... This is termed sprigging or nailing. Sprig.—A cut brad. See Brad. ..."
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