Spund

• IPA^(key): /ʃpʊnt/

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• Rhymes: -ʊnt
• Hyphenation: Spund

From Late Middle High German spunt m or n (meaning both bung-hole and bung), probably (ultimately) from Latin expūnctum (expungere), whence Middle Low German spunt, Middle Dutch spond (→ spondgat), Dutch spon. Originally only with the meaning of bung-hole (German Spundloch, Anstichöffnung).[1] Possibly through an Italian intermediate spunta.

Spund m (strong, genitive Spundes or Spunds, plural Spünde)

1. bung, plug, tap (stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of wood or rubber used to prevent fluid from passing through the opening of a vessel)

   Synonyms: Verschlußzapfen, Zapfen

   Coordinate term: Korken

   voll bis zum Spunde ― full to the brim (literally, “full to the bung”)

2. (woodworking) a slat (elongated protrusion) on the side of a (wooden) plank used to join it with another plank that has a fitting groove to receive the slat; tongue

   Synonym: Feder

   Coordinate term: (receiving side) Nut

• Spundbohle
• Spundverschluss
• Spundwand
• Fassspund

• Spundloch

• → Czech: špunt

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Spund m (strong, genitive Spundes or Spunds, plural Spunde)

1. (informal, derogatory) an inexperienced, young man

   Synonym: Jungspund

• Jungspund

• “Spund” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Spund” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Spund” in Duden online
• “Spund”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Spund” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon