springer

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A springer spaniel.
• noun A cow about to give birth.
• noun The bottom stone of an arch resting on the impost.
• noun The point or place where the curve of an arch or vault begins.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In old music, a grace or embellishment, consisting of an after-note one degree above the principal note: as
• noun One who or that which springs, in any sense.
• noun A youth; a lad.
• noun In architecture:
• noun The impost or place where the vertical support to an arch terminates, and the curve of the arch begins.
• noun The lower voussoir or bottom stone of an arch, which lies immediately upon the impost.
• noun The bottom stone of the coping of a gable.
• noun The rib of a groined roof or vault. See cross-springer.
• noun A dog of a class of spaniels resembling the cocker, used, in sporting, to spring or flush game. See spaniel.
• noun The springbok.
• noun A grampus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
• noun obsolete A young plant.
• noun The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
• noun The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
• noun The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
• noun (Zoöl.) The grampus.
• noun (Zoöl.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
• noun (Zoöl.) A species of antelope; the springbok.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A person that springs.
• noun Anything that springs.
• noun A spring salmon.
• noun A springer antelope.
• noun A stone at the base of an arch (from which the arch springs).
• noun A springing cow.
• noun A springer spaniel.
• noun A springbok.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white
• noun the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs
• noun a cow about to give birth