▪ I. spronk1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 1 spranca, 5 spronke.
[OE. spranca; cf. WFlem. spranke branch of a vein or artery.]
† 1. A shoot, sprout. Obs. rare.
| c 1000 ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 139 Stirps, styb, uel spranca. Ibid. 149 Plante, treowes sprancan. a 1100 in Napier O.E. Glosses. 54/2 Labruscas, sprotu, sprancan. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. xii. 116 After dayes vij vp hem [peaches] take; By thenne out wol a spronke of hem be lette Vppon the shelle. |
2. dial. The stump of a tree or tooth.
| 1838 in Holloway. 1847– in dial. glossaries (Kent, Sussex, Surrey). |
▪ II. † spronk2 Obs.—1
[Cf. sprank2.]
A spark.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 205 Anon so he hadde þis word i-seid, þat fuyr aqueinte ech spronke. |