Definition of "springe"

Ay, springes to catch woodcocks

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii], line 114

Look how a mavis, or a pigeòn, / In any grove caught with a springe or net […]

1614: The Odysses of Homer by George Chapman, book 23 line 594

With hairy Sprindges we the Birds betray

1714: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, 2nd edn., canto 2 line 25

’twas my joy / With store of springes o’er my shoulder hung / To range the open heights where woodcocks run / Along the smooth green turf.

c. 1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude‎, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 16