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spong Now dial.
[var. of spang n.3]
1. A long narrow piece or strip (of ground or land).
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. ix. 185 Shiloh succeeds (in a narrow southern spong of this Tribe). Ibid. iv. ii. 22 A spong of ground somewhat nigh a thousand miles,..and not bearing a proportionable breadth. a1800–in dialect glossaries (E. Anglia, Leic., Northampt.).
†2. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. II. 103 A laboring man gave notice that he was going to drive the tumbril (two-wheeled cart) to the spong (drift-way for cattle). |