sprent

American  

[sprent] / sprɛnt /

adjective

Archaic.

1. sprinkled.

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Etymology

Origin of sprent

First recorded in 1505–15; past participle of obsolete sprenge “to sprinkle,” Middle English sprengen, Old English sprengan; cognate with Old High German, Middle High German, German sprengen, Old Norse sprengja “to cause to jump”; cf. sprinkle

Example Sentences

It is called Gavin Muir; and, though lonely, and covered with spret and heather, exhibits some objects which merit the attention of the traveller in the wilderness.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by Wilson, John Mackay

Over all, were laid turf, and spret, and bog-hay, which formed a kind of isthmus betwixt the two kingdoms.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

I ran and screamed, whilst it ran screaming too, through moss and pool, and spret and heath; and there we coursed it along—startling the whaups and miresnipes with our music.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

Blessed are the deade which do dye in the lorde / euẽ so saieth the spret / that they rest from their labours.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter

There they lay, amidst the wet spret, or on the velvet fringe of the streamlet, in all the glory of scale and fin.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various