資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light.
--Dryden.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project. --Swift.
3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
4. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as,
to spring a mast or a yard.
5. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap
operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
6. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force
or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and
allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in,
out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
7. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
{To spring a butt} (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a
ship's bottom.
{To spring a leak} (Naut.), to begin to leak.
{To spring an arch} (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common
term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.
{To spring a rattle}, to cause a rattle to sound. See
{Watchman's rattle}, under {Watchman}.
{To spring the luff} (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail
nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel.
--Mar. Dict.
{To spring a} {mast or spar} (Naut.), to strain it so that it
is unserviceable.