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springal

springal is the alternative form of springald.

springal is the obsolete form of springald.

Meaning of springald

Noun (1)

springald (plural springalds)

  1. (archaic) A young man, a stripling, a youth.
    • There came two Springals of full tender yeares, / Farre thence from forrein land where they did dwell […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

springald (plural springalds)

  1. (historical) An ancient military engine for launching stones and arrows by means of a spring.
    • The springald is a somewhat more problematic weapon as it is completely unclear whether it was the same weapon as the Roman ballista which some historians believe never disappeared from the battlefield and remained in use throughout […]2007, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 138

Forms of springal

pluralspringals

Questions about springal

What is springal the alternative form of?
Springal is the alternative form of springald.

Words near springal in the dictionary

  1. spring-tail
  2. spring-time
  3. spring-times
  4. spring-water
  5. spring-waters
  6. springal
  7. springald
  8. springalds
  9. springall
  10. springalls
  11. springals

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