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275 Sprawl. A disease of yonng clucks. They lose their strength and seem as if "they could hardly sjprawl" See Sproil. Sprayed. Face, or hands roughened by cold. Spraying. An east wind is " sl yer j spraying wind.^^ Spriggan. A fairy. See Piskey. Sprigly. Split, or split up, as of a wart when growing much cracked or split. ^^ A sprigly wart." Springle. A trap for snaring birds. A little wicker work, (made of a slight willow rod), about eight or ten inches long, and shaped like a battledoor, is pinned to the ground at the broad end. At the apex, a notch is cut for a button or catch. Across the apex an arched short rod, called the bridge, is stuck at both ends into the ground. A willow rod is stuck into the ground about three, feet off, having at the top a line ending in a slip noose. The noose is passed under the bridge, and laid on the wicker, the rod being bent down and secured by a button near the noose, to the bridge and the wicker. Bait is placed on the wicker, a bird hopping on it releases the button, the rod flies back, and the bird is caught by the running noose. Sproil, or Sprawl. Energy, strength. " I haven't got a bit of sproil." To sprawl, as, "I can hardly sprawl," i.e., scarcely stand or move. SprOOSen. An untidy, ungartered woman. M.A.o. Sprouncey. Cheerful, jolly, slightly intoxicated.