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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. sprag: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sprag, sprag, sprag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sprag, sprag (adj.): Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sprag)

noun:  A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop.
verb:  (transitive) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
verb:  (transitive) To prop or sustain with a sprag.
noun:  A young salmon.
adjective:  Alternative form of sprack [(UK, dialectal) lively, full of energy]

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