A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1501-1513, 1596-1630, 1700+
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Springald, n.2 Also: -hald, -al(l, -ell, spryngald. [Late ME and e.m.E. sprynhold (c1440), spryngald(e (1535), spryngall (1542); ? Spring n. or v.] A youth, a young man. Also attrib.1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 530.
Lustie springaldis [L. spryngaldis] … Tender ȝounglingis 1513 Doug. vi xiii 11.
Ȝou lusty springald or ȝonkeir 1513 Doug. vii iii 32.
Childir and pagis And lusty springaldis, al of tendir agis, Thar horssis … dyd assay 1513 Doug. xii v 130.
A gudly spryngald, a fair ȝyng galland 1596 Dalr. I 325/2.
A certane noble springhald … is be the king promouet til honour 1603 Moysie 7.
The maister of Maris eldest sone, being ane young springell 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 109.
Becaus that King James … hade made so mein a springall generall of that army a1706 Sibbald Hist. of Picts (1706) in Misc. Scot. I 22.
I saw my self … at Rome very youths and springals higher by half a foot than the tallest menattrib. 1600-1610 Melvill 119.
It was a pitie to sie sa weill a brought upe prince till his bernhead was past, to be sa miserablie corrupted in the entress of his springall age
