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Springer n.

One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

A young plant. (Obs.)

(Arch.)

(a)

The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring. Hence:

(b)

The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.

(c)

The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.

(Zool.) The grampus.

(Zool.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.

(Zool.) A species of antelope; the springbok.

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Etymology of 'Springer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Springer" Quotes from Famous Books

... actual result has been to reduce this body to an impotence unparalleled among national representative assemblies in countries having constitutional government. In a speech delivered on December 10, 1885, William M. Springer of Illinois complained: "We find ourselves bound hand and foot, the majority delivering themselves over to the power of the minority that might oppose any particular measures, so that nothing could be done in the way of legislation except by unanimous ...

— The Cleveland Era - A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics, Volume 44 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Henry Jones Ford

... new route and said the mines could be reached much quicker than by going up the coast by way of San Francisco. A new company with wagons was soon to start out to break the road, and when they crossed the east end of the valley he would follow them. I think this man's name was Springer. He had come by way of the Santa Fe route, and the people of Los Angeles had told him this route was an easy one being often traveled by saddle horses, and if the company could make it possible for wagons they could have all the cattle they ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... Abraham was, I am" (John viii. 58); and by Gate xci. of Zoroastrianism "O Zardusht for thy sake I have created the world" (Dabistan i. 344). The sentiment is by no means "Shi'ah," as my learned friend Prof. Aloys Springer supposes. In his Mohammed (p. 220) we find an extract from a sectarian poet, "For thee we dispread the earth; for thee we caused the waters to flow; for thee we vaulted the heavens." As Baron Alfred von Kremer, another learned and experienced Orientalist, reminds ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... test the usability of fully electronic access to documents, as a joint project of Cornell University, the American Chemical Society, the Chemical Abstracts Service, OCLC, and Bellcore (with additional support from Sun Microsystems, Springer-Verlag, DigitaI Equipment Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, and Apple Computers). Our file contains the American Chemical Society's on-line journals, supplemented with the graphics from the paper publication. The indexing of the ...

— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly

... legislature petitioned Congress to extend United States jurisdiction over No Man's Land, and so did the state of Indiana; and it was attached to the East District of Texas for the purposes of jurisdiction. Congressman Springer held up this bill for a time, using it as a club for the passage of a measure of his own upon which he was intent. Thus, it may be seen that the tawdry little tragedy in that land which indeed was 'No Man's Land' in time attained ...

— The Story of the Outlaw - A Study of the Western Desperado • Emerson Hough

Words linked to "Springer" : cow, springing cow, English springer spaniel, impost, stone, springer spaniel, Welsh springer spaniel, spaniel