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Definition of Sprods
1. sprod [n] - See also: sprod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprods
Literary usage of Sprods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eliza Cook's journal by Eliza Cook (1853)
"... the meshes of nets, made jnst within the dimensions p r- mitted by Aet of
Parliament, whether the same be sin;h ». sprods, morts, ..."
2. Falconry: Its Claims, History, and Practice by Gage Earle Freeman, Francis Henry Salvin (1859)
"... which had brought up the sea fish, called locally " sprods :" they are silvery
fish, of about three quarters of a pound weight. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"... had been already mentioned ; and sprods will be found to be n very confined
local name for what, ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"Lee with a lid on : a tenu for a notorious lie. Leister, n. an eel spear, a spear
for catching fish. For round fish, as mort, sprods, salmon, ..."
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