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Sprag   Listen
noun
Sprag  n.  (Zool.) A young salmon. (Prov. Eng.)


Sprag  n.  A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.


verb
Sprag  v. t.  (past & past part. spragged; pres. part. spragging)  
1.
To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
2.
To prop or sustain with a sprag.


adjective
Sprag  adj.  See Sprack, a.





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"Sprag" Quotes from Famous Books



... just for the joy of watching you floundering 'midst deep waters. Of course, you chose the right channel. I knew you would, but it's a treat to see your elephantine struggles. For all that, it's a sheer impossibility that you should guess who put a sprag in the wheel of Hilton's chariot. Give you three ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... were trim and sprag, and patent, and pleased the survivors of Thames Ditton above the old mumpsimus of "Afflictions sore." ... To do justice, though, it must be owned that even the excellent feeling which dictated this dirge ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb


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