Talk:spang

Etymology
Is this ever used in the original meaning of clasp? 72.160.179.120 06:08, 24 March 2015 (UTC) --- Spangit (spang), n. [( ME. spang,( AS. spage, also ge-spong, a clasp, brooch, = MD. sTange, D. spa,g = MLG. spa,ge = OHG. spa,gd, MHG. G. spa,ge, a clasp, brooch, buckle, ornament, = Icel. sp6g, a clasp, stud, spangle, etc.; root ob- scure. The Gael. spa,g, a spangle, is prob. ( E. Hence spa,gle.] A shining ornament or object; a spangle. spangit (spang), v.t. [< spag 1, n.] To set with bright points: star or spangle. spang2 (spang), v. [A var. or collateral form of spank1, move quickly, perhaps due to asso- ciation with spring (pret. sprag).] I. intrans. To leap; spring. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] II. trans. To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence. [Prey. Eng. and Scotch.] spang2 (spang), . [< spa,g2, v.] A spring; a leaping or springing up; a violent blow or movement. [Prey. Eng. and Scotch.]
 * Our plumes, our sparigs, and al our queint aray ! Gascoigne, Steele Glas, p. 377.
 * All set with spangs of glitt'ring stars untold. Bacon, Paraphrase of Psalm civ.
 * Glistering copper sparigs, / That glisten in the tyer of the Court. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., iii. 1.
 * Upon his head he wore a hunter's hat / Of crimson velvet, spangd with stares of gold. Battlefield, Cassandra (1595). (Nares.)
 * An I could but hae gotten some decent claes on, I wad hae spaged out o' bed. Scott, Old Mortality, vii.
 * She came up to the table with a fantastic spring, and spaged down the sparkling mass on it. C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, lxv. (Davies.)
 * Set roasted beef and pudding on the opposite side o' the pit o' Topher, and an Englishman will make a spans at it. Scott, Rob Roy, xxviii.
 * He went swinging by the rope back to the main stem of the tree, gave it a fierce spans with his feet, and... got an inch nearer the window. C. Reade, Hard Cash, xliii.