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5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
originFrom Middle English sprete, from Old English sprēot (“pole, pike, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *spreut, related to Proto-West Germanic *sprutō (“shoot, sprout”). Cognate with West Frisian spriet (“sprit, spoke”), Dutch spriet (“a sprit, blade, spar, shoot, sprig”), Middle High German spriez (“sprout, twig”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0