Spring'-bök or Spring'-bück, n.

n. [D. springbok, Ger. springbock, from D. & Ger. springen, to spring, leap, and D. bok, Ger. bock, a he-goat, buck.] (Zoöl.) A species of antelope (Antilope Euchore, or springer antelope), which inhabits the plains of South Africa. It is of an exceedingly light and graceful form, and is so called from a habit of jumping up, as it were in play. [Written also spring-boc and spring-bock.]

Spring-bok (Antilope Euchore).