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springall

/ˈspɹɪŋɔːl/

springall is the alternative 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

Proper noun capitalized: Springall

Springall

  1. A surname.

Forms of springall

pluralspringalls

Questions about springall

What does springall mean?
Springall means a surname.
What is springall the alternative form of?
Springall is the alternative form of springald.
What part of speech is springall?
Springall is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce springall?
Springall is pronounced /ˈspɹɪŋɔːl/.

Words near springall in the dictionary

  1. spring-water
  2. spring-waters
  3. springal
  4. springald
  5. springalds
  6. springall
  7. springalls
  8. springals
  9. springback
  10. springbacks
  11. Springbank

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Adapted from Wiktionary: springall (page history and authors); Springall (page history and authors); springald (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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