Meaning

noun light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

noun any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

verb make neat, smart, or trim

originFrom Middle English Spruce, an alteration of Pruce (“Prussia”), from Medieval Latin, from a Baltic language, probably Old Prussian; for more, see Prussia. Spruce, spruse (1412), and Sprws (1378) were terms for commodities brought to England by Hanseatic merchants (beer, wood, leather). The tree with this name was also believed to have been native to Prussia. The adjective and verb senses ("trim,…

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