Usually means: Pole supporting sail on boat.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprit: Merriam-Webster
  2. sprit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sprit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sprit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sprit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sprit, sprit: Wordnik
  7. sprit: Wiktionary
  8. sprit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. sprit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sprit: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sprit: Dictionary.com
  12. sprit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sprit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sprit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sprit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sprit: Rhymezone
  17. Sprit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sprit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sprit: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sprit: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. sprit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sprit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sprit: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sprit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sprit: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See spriting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sprit)

noun:  (nautical) A spar between mast and upper outer corner of a spritsail on sailing boats.
noun:  A shoot; a sprout.
verb:  To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
verb:  To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.

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