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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Spraingit, Sprangit, ppl. adj. Also: sprainge(i)t, -ed, -ie, spraingȝet, spraingȝeit(t, sprang(i)et, spranȝed, spreinged, spreinȝeit, sprenged, sprenȝied, spryngeit, springed. [ME sprengid (Wyclif); Spraing v. Cf. Spangit ppl. adj.]Some of the manuscript forms may be misreadings.

1. Of cloth: Variegated, striped, also, more rarely, referring to stripes of a specified colour or type.(a) 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV 153.
Thrie elnes of spraingit taffattie blew & incarnot 1623 Edinb. Test. LII 61b.
Tua hundreth ellis of spraingie plaidis 1628 Edinb. Test. LIV 235.
Aucht elnes sprainȝeit fusteane 1635 Haddington Corr. 303.
Ane stand sprainged silk courtenes 1638 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 37.
Ane dowblet of sprainget taiffitie 1639 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 39.
Ane dowblet & breikis with twa pair of hoeis of spraingȝet stuife 1644 Edinb. Test. LX 376b.
Tua dussone blew sprainȝeitt servitouris 1654 Jervise Epitaphs & Inscriptions I 387/1.
Four pair of sprainged bed plaids 1686 Depred. Clan Campbell 40.
2 pair sprainged playds 1691 Soc. Ant. LIII 59.
Ane pair of sprainged blankits(b) 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII 125b.
Nyne ellis … broun spranget craip 1623 Edinb. Test. LI 322b.
Sprangiet stuff 1648 Aberd. Council Lett. III 122.
Sex fardells sprangit plaidis 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II 196.
Ane spranȝed table cloath(c) 1621 Edinb. Test. LI 140.
Spreinȝeit canves 1634 Edinb. Test. LVI 227.
Sex hundreth … elnes of spreinged plaidis(d) 1624 Edinb. Test. LII 236.
lxxij ellis of spryngeit canves 1656 Edinb. Test. LXVIII 235.
Ane new springed plaid 1704 Sc. Ant. XII 23.
Short hose of tartane of red and greine sett, broad springed(e) 1673 Argyll Justic. Rec. 30.
Ane sprenged white plyde 1683 Inv. in Donibristle Mun. (Earl of Moray's MSS) 6 (9-10 May).
Ane pair of read sprenȝied plaids 1694 Inchmahome Pr. 159.
Sprenȝied blankits with red and blew

2. Of an animal: Having striped or streaked markings. 1687 Fraser-Mackintosh Lett. Two Cent. 117.
One gaird or sprainged cow, red and black, and her horns little and cross