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n. A sprout, shoot, twig, small branch:--Sprote with a rod(?), Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 35. Sprota sarmentorum, ramorum, qui de vinea exciduntur, Hpt. Gl. 445, 32: 489, 10: palmitum, Germ. 401, 16. Sprotum sarmentis, 401, 24. [Halliwell gives sprote-wood as a word still in use for small wood or sticks for firing. Jamieson gives sprot(1) the withered stump of any plant, broken and lying on the ground; (2) the end of a branch blown off a growing tree; (3) a chip of wood, flying from the tool of a carpenter. O. L. Ger. gi-sprot surculum: Du. sprot a sprout, twig (Hexham).] and newt word. sprot