1530s, originally a carpenters' word for a piece of timber used in framing, of unknown origin. The meaning "projection from the rim of a wheel that engages the links of a chain" is first recorded 1750.
sprint
sprinter
sprit
sprite
spritz
sprocket
sprout
spruce
sprucify
sprue
spruik
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