sprig

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sprig1

▶noun

• 1 a small stem bearing leaves or flowers, taken from a bush or plant.

• 2 a descendant or younger member of a family or social class.

• 3 a small moulded decoration applied to a piece of pottery before firing.

▶verb (sprigs, sprigging, sprigged) decorate (pottery) with sprigs.

■ (as adj. sprigged) (of fabric or wallpaper) decorated with a design of sprigs.

– derivatives
spriggy adjective.

– origin ME: from or rel. to Low Ger. sprick.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sprig2

▶noun a small tapering tack with no head, used chiefly to hold glass in a window frame until the putty dries.

– origin ME: of unknown origin.