Definitions for springe

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Spelling: [sprinj]
IPA: /sprɪndʒ/

Springe is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in springe (eginprs).

Definitions for springe

noun

  1. a snare for catching small game.

verb (used with object)

  1. to catch in a springe.

verb (used without object)

  1. to set a springe or springes.

Origin of springe

1200-50; Middle English, variant of sprenge a snare, literally, something that is made to spring, derivative of sprengen to make spring, Old English sprengan, causative of springan to

Examples for springe

Bow-traps are especially favoured, but the springe for birds and the pitfalls for large animals are not despised.

This was a springe to catch the "wimmen folks, God bless them."

You are now fairly trapped at last—caught like the woodcock in your own springe.

A little while ago I set a springe and two horse-hair nooses in the reed bed for water rails.

Be caught like a bird in a springe; everything intended to be hidden from me!

During this discussion Ellangowan was somewhat like a woodcock caught in his own springe.

The slighter the strain on the springe, the more delicately can its mechanism be set.

And briefly he sketched for her the springe he was setting with the help of Mr. Newlington.

Thus had Amilcare been sold by his own purchase, and thus Grifone griped in his own springe.

The German Emperor was paying his annual visit to the moors at springe.

Word Value for springe
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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