spant

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spant

1. inflection of spannen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• snapt

spant

1. simple past of spinne

spant n (definite singular, indefinite plural, definite plural)

1. (nautical) a frame, a rib (beam running from the keel (bottom) to the gunwale (top edge) of a boat, sometimes also of longitudinal beams)

Borrowed from Dutch spant. Doublet of spänna.

spant n

1. (nautical) a frame, a rib (beam running from the keel (bottom) to the gunwale (top edge) of a boat, sometimes also of longitudinal beams)

• bordläggning (“skin”)

• spant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• spant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• spant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• spant in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• spant in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)