sprinkle1 n, usu pl also brinkle*, prinkle*. See also PRICKLE. Needle of spruce or fir (P 148-62).
T 175/7-65 Next summer that limb was dried up an' perhaps the sprinkles, what we call the sprinkles-the things on the bough-is fell off an'dried up. 1966 PADDOCK 87 Prinkles, sprinkles. The prickley leaves of the local conifirs such as spruce and fir. T 398-67 Spruce buds, she'd boil' em. She'd put in the liquor an' the buds what she'd strained off. clear o' the sprinkles an' all that: she'd take that all out. P 148-70 [When they brought in blasty boughs] the room was full of bough brinkles.
