英语词汇“sprig”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	sprig
释义	sprig /sprig/, n. , v. , sprigged, sprigging. n. 1. a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc. 2. an ornament having the form of such a spray. 3. a shoot, twig, or small branch. 4. Facetious. a scion, offspring, or heir of a family, class, etc. 5. a youth or young fellow. 6. See glazier's point. 7. a headless brad. 8. Metall. a. a small peg for reinforcing the walls of a mold. b. a metal insert, used to chill certain portions of cast metal, that becomes an integral part of the finished casting. v.t. 9. to mark or decorate (fabrics, pottery, etc.) with a design of sprigs. 10. to fasten with brads. 11. Hort. to propagate a plant, esp. grass, by planting individual stolons. 12. Metall. to reinforce the walls of (a mold) with sprigs. 13. to remove a sprig or sprigs from (a plant). [1300-50; ME sprigge (n.); orig. uncert.; sense "peg" perh. of distinct orig.; cf. SPRAG¹, SPRAY²]
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