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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sprit/sprɪt/

▶noun Sailing a small spar reaching diagonally from a mast to the upper outer corner of a sail.

– origin OE sprēot ‘(punting) pole’; rel. to sprout.

'sprit' also found in these Oxford entries:

bowsprit - sprite - spritsail

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