Cora vs Sprit - What's the difference?
cora | sprit |
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* 1826 :
* 1990 , , Vespers , Mandarin (1991), ISBN 0749305967, page 78:
(nautical) A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
A shoot; a sprout.
To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
As nouns the difference between cora and sprit
is that cora is while sprit is (lb) petrol, gas (gasoline).As an adjective cora
is .cora
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora , when the distant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger;
- "Where are you from originally, Coral?" "Indiana." "Lots of Corals out there, I bet." She hesitated, seemed about to flare, and then smiled instead, showing a little gap between two front teeth. "Well, it was Cora' Lucille, I guess, " she said, still smiling, looking very much like a ' Cora Lucille in that moment. Hawes imagined pigtails tied with polka-dot rags.
Anagrams
* * * *sprit
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) spr?otNoun
(en noun)- (Mortimer)
Verb
(en-verb)Etymology 2
Akin to (etyl) spritzen.Verb
(en-verb)- (Sir Thomas Browne)