dictionary help| springer | medical dictionary |
1. One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
3. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring. Hence: The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
5. <zoology> A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
6. <zoology> A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.
(01 Mar 1998)
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