springal (pluralspringals)

1. (archaic)Alternative form ofspringald(“a youth”).
   • 1623,John Webster,The Duchess of Malfi‎^[1],act II, scene i:

     For, but for that, and the loose-bodied gown, / I should have discover’d apparently / The youngspringal cutting a caper in her belly.

2. Obsolete form ofspringald(“military engine for launching stones and arrows”).
   • 1980, Chris Cook, John Stevenson,Weapons of War:

     Various ‘artillery’ machines were employed. These were similar to machines known in antiquity to Rome and Byzantium. One such machine, particularly useful against wooden castles and on ships, was thespringal.

• Sparling,graplins,laspring,sparling

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