Definitions for sprit

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Spelling: [sprit]
IPA: /sprɪt/

Sprit is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in sprit (iprst).

Definitions for sprit

noun

  1. a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.

Origin of sprit

before 900; Middle English spret, Old English sprēot; cognate with Dutch, German Spriet; akin to sprout

Examples for sprit

Fit the loop in the notch in the lower end of the sprit, and the sail is set.

In this case the sprit requires little shifting or attention.

At length one of the Siwash lifted the short mast forward into its place, and thrusting in the sprit, shook loose the sail.

This gives the length of the sprit, and the yard should be made twice as long.

Catharina, commandant of her soldiery, and has his arms flying at her sprit, beside Sta.

I'll try and set the mainsail on her with the remains of the sprit.

She felt sure his sprit approved when she married her lover last year.

The ends of the sprit in the foresail project at the luff and leach.

The sheet is attached to the end of the sprit (Figs. 164-168).

The sprit is connected with the yard by what sailors call a crotch.

Word Value for sprit
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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