spattle
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.
Noun[edit]
spattle (plural spattles)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
spattle
- spawl; spittle
- 1538, John Bale, Comedy concenynge thre lawes:
- I can worke wyles in battle , If I do ones but spattle
References[edit]
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Spattle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “spattle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.