spring|ald

spring|ald
spring|ald1 «SPRIHNG uhld», noun.
Archaic. a young man; youth; stripling.
╂[Middle English sprynhold; origin uncertain]
spring|ald2 «SPRIHNG uhld», noun.
a machine of war used in the Middle Ages for throwing heavy stones or other missiles; a kind of catapult.
╂[apparently < Anglo-French springalde, Old French espringalle < espringuer to spring < Germanic (compare Old English springan to spring)]

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