Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light.
                                                  --Dryden.

      The friends to the cause sprang a new project. --Swift.

   3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

   4. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as,
      to spring a mast or a yard.

   5. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap
      operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

   6. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force
      or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and
      allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in,
      out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.

   7. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

   {To spring a butt} (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a
      ship's bottom.

   {To spring a leak} (Naut.), to begin to leak.

   {To spring an arch} (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common
      term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.

   {To spring a rattle}, to cause a rattle to sound. See
      {Watchman's rattle}, under {Watchman}.

   {To spring the luff} (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail
      nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel.
      --Mar. Dict.

   {To spring a} {mast or spar} (Naut.), to strain it so that it
      is unserviceable.

Rattle \Rat"tle\, n.
   1. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the
      rattle of a drum. --Prior.

   2. Noisy, rapid talk.

            All this ado about the golden age is but an empty
            rattle and frivolous conceit.         --Hakewill.

   3. An instrument with which a ratting sound is made;
      especially, a child's toy that rattle when shaken.

            The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea
            nearly enough resemble each other.    --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.

            Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope.

   4. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

            It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so
            much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have
            been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an
            empty, noisy, blundering rattle.      --Macaulay.

   5. A scolding; a sharp rebuke. [Obs.] --Heylin.

   6. (Zo["o]l.) Any organ of an animal having a structure
      adapted to produce a ratting sound.

   Note: The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the
         hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but
         not cast off, and so modified in form as to make a
         series of loose, hollow joints.

   7. The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing
      through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; --
      chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is
      called the death rattle. See {R[^a]le}.

   {To spring a rattle}, to cause it to sound.

   {Yellow rattle} (Bot.), a yellow-flowered herb ({Rhinanthus
      Crista-galli}), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the
      inflated calyx.