SPRINGE

Definition: SPRINGE

SPRINGE

Intransitive verb

1. A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.

Transitive verb

1. To sprinkle; to scatter.

2. To catch in a springe; to insnare.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPRINGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Deception

Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house.

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Crosswords: SPRINGE

Danish (jump, leap, spring), Frisian (jump, leap, spring, to jump).

Books

• Die Grossvogtei Calenberg : d. Ämter u. Vogteien Calenberg, Springe, Langenhagen, Neustadt vor Hannover u. Koldingen : Topographie, Verfassung, Verwaltung (reference)

• Die Orgeln des ehemaligen Kreises Springe : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte vom Wandel des Klangideals (reference)

• Geschichte(n) aus dem Deisterland : kurzweilige Erzählungen und Berichte als Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Calenberger Landes aus der Sicht eines Bürgers der Stadt Springe (reference)

• Ich springe hoch und wende mich ab (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe to catch comfort and independence, and then, as he turned away, got his own leg into it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, snare, trap, wile), grackë (booby trap, cobweb, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, trap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

капан за ловене на дребен дивеч. (various references)

Czech

oko (eye, kink, mesh, noose, pip, snare, spot, tarn). (various references)

Greek 

βρόχοσ (bight, loop, mesh, noose, snare), παγίδα (catch, gin, noose, snare, trap). (various references)

Hungarian

hurok (bight, bow, halter, hitch, kink, knot, lobe, loop, noose, sling, slip knot, snare, snarl). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingespray

Portuguese

laço (bond, cufflink, decoy, decoy-duck, fillet, knot, lace, lariat, lasso, link, loop, mantrap, mesh, rope, shoe-lace, snare, snood, tie, trap, tying, yoke). (various references)

Romanian

laţ (gin, lath, link, loop, noose, sling, snare, trap, wire), cursã (ambush, chase, course, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, snare, stroke, take in, the dogs, toil, trap). (various references)

Russian 

силок. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamka (bight, catch, deadfall, gin, mesh, noose, pitfall, snare, trap), omča (bight, loop, noose, sling). (various references)

Spanish

lazo (attachment, bind, bond, bow, connection, knot, lariat, lasso, league, link, list, loop, noose, snare, tie). (various references)

Swedish

snara (ensnare, entrap, gin, halter, hook, loop, noose, snare, trap). (various references)

Turkish

tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, noose, snare, toil, toilets, toils, trap, wire), tuzağa düşürmek (ambuscade, circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, gin, mesh, net, snare, trammel, trap), kapan (gin, snare, trap, wire), ilmekli tuzak. (various references)

Ukrainian

сильце (drag-net, net, snare). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái thòng lọng. (various references)

Welsh

croglath (snare). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "SPRINGE": springed, springeing, springer, springers, springes. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pingers.

-1 letter: genips, gripes, pinger, reigns, renigs, repins, resign, ripens, sering, signer, singer, sniper, spring.

-2 letters: genip, girns, grins, gripe, grips, peins, penis, peris, piers, pines, pings, pirns, pries, prigs, prise, reign, reins, renig, repin, resin, rings, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, segni, sengi, serin, singe, siren, snipe, speir, spier, spine, spire, sprig.

-3 letters: egis, engs.

+1 letter: impregns, perigons, perusing, pressing, reposing, respring, spearing, speering, speiring, sphering, spiering, spongier, springed, springer, springes, supering.

+2 letters: aspersing, bedspring, escarping, grapiness, graplines, impingers, impugners, peignoirs, peregrins, perfusing, perishing, pestering, piercings, preassign, precising, premising, presaging, presiding, pressings, presuming, prevising, priesting, progenies, progestin, relapsing, repassing, repasting, reprising, repulsing, reshaping, respacing, respading, respiring, respiting, resprings, sceptring, simpering, spanglier, speerings, spreading, springers, springier, syphering, trapesing.