Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of sprit is as below...

Sprite :: Sprite (n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright..

Sprit :: Sprit (v. t.) To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt..

Spriteful :: Sprite (n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle..

Frigatoon :: Frigatoon (n.) A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged..

Steeve :: Steeve (n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving..

Jib :: "Jib (v. i.) A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc..

Sprit :: Sprit (n.) A shoot; a sprout.

Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..

Stem :: Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow..

Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..

Elf :: Elf (n.) An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks..

Hob :: Hob (n.) A fairy; a sprite; an elf.

Whisker :: Whisker (n.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc..

Bowsprit :: Bowsprit (n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward..

Spritely :: Spriteliness (a.) Alt. of Spritel.

Spriteliness :: Spritefully (a.) Alt. of Spritel.

Sprit :: Sprit (v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

Phantom :: Phantom (n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

Sprocket Wheel :: Spritsail (n.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard..

Random Fonts

Most Popular