sprag

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SPRAG, adjective Vigorous; sprightly. [Local.] [Note. In America, this word is, in popular language, pronounced spry, which is a contraction of spright, in sprightly.] SPRAG, noun A young salmon. [Local.]
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