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# sprit

«sprit» in Mova's school dictionary: **a thin, stiff stalk of rush or reed, used to tie things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (sprits)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) A sprit is a thin, stiff stalk of rush or reed, used to tie things, such as halters for cattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprit/#m1)

2) (sailing) A sprit is a pole that slants across a sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, the rushes a farmer plaits into ties for his cows

### examples

- The goodman was plaiting sprit-binnings for the cows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprit/#x1)
- Binnings are halters for cattle made of sprit or rushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprit/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sprit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sprit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.