Definition of: sprig

(sprig) noun
1. A shoot or sprout of a tree or plant; an ornament in this form.
2. An offshoot from an ancestral stock; a young man.
3. One of various small, pointed implements.
4. A brad without a head.
5. A small, wedge–shaped piece of metal used to hold glass in a window sash.
—v.t. sprigged, sprig·ging
1. To ornament with a design of sprigs.
2. To form (twigs or plants) into sprays.
3. To fasten with sprigs or brads.
4. To pluck sprigs from. [ME sprigge; origin uncertain]
—sprig′ger noun