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spang


  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spang  \Spang\,  v.  t. 
  To  spangle.  [Obs.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spang  \Spang\,  v.  i. 
  To  spring;  to  bound;  to  leap.  [Scot.] 
 
  But  when  they  spang  o'er  reason's  fence,  We  smart  for't 
  at  our  own  expense.  --Ramsay. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spang  \Spang\,  n. 
  A  bound  or  spring.  [Scot.]  --Sir  W.  Scott. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spang  \Spang\,  n.  [AS.  spange  a  clasp  or  fastening;  akin  to  D. 
  spang,  G.  spange,  OHG.  spanga,  Icel.  sp["o]ng  a  spangle.] 
  A  spangle  or  shining  ornament.  [Obs.] 
 
  With  glittering  spangs  that  did  like  stars  appear. 
  --Spenser. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spang 
  v  :  leap.  jerk,  bang  (dialectal);  "Bullets  spanged  into  the 
  trees"  [syn:  {bang}] 




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