Sprit vs Sprits - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sprit and sprits

is that sprit is a spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats while sprits is plural of lang=en.

is to sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.

(etyl) spr?ot

(en noun)

(nautical) A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.

A shoot; a sprout.

(Mortimer)

(en-verb)

To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.

Akin to (etyl) spritzen.

(en-verb)

To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

(Sir Thomas Browne)

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