[f. SPRIG sb.1]
1. trans. To fasten with sprigs or brads, Also with down, on, etc.
1713. J. Warder, True Amazons, 120. Let all the Pieces and Frames be well sprig’d to this Head.
1840. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 419/1. On the floor is sprigged down a rib of wood.
1871. Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 59. The back may be glued and sprigged on to the frame.
1892. Labour Commission, Gloss. No. ix. Boys who cannot fit on the parts but can only sprig them together.
absol. 1902. How to Make Things, 61/1. Glue and sprig on.
2. intr. To drive in sprigs.
1898. J. MacManus, Bend of Road, 101. If you spake less an sprig more he’ll have his boot the quicker.
Hence Sprigged ppl. a.; Sprigging vbl. sb.
1883. Goole Wkly. Times, 14 Sept., 4/5. Men’s Sprigged Blucher Boots.
1899. Daily News, 12 May, 3/1. When the sprigging of boots, instead of hand-sewing them, came into operation.
