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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)