Meaning of spattle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A spatula.
2. Spawl; spittle.
3. A small spate; a slight inundation or a sprinkle of rain.
4. A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.

Examples

“[Mix the] cream with an ice "spattle." When the cream gets to be of a certain consistency, the spattle may be held firmly in the freezer, which is to be spun round by means of the fingers on the rim until the whole becomes frozen hard. A good[…]”

“[…] occasionally sprinkle a handful of salt on the ice while freezing, give a few turns and work it down smooth with the spattle; then turn until the cream is frozen even and smooth all through.”

“... he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether, and smereth the eyes, eares, and nosethrilles of the childe.”

“The caal^([sic]) or dam of Bankend-Mill, (Fact 12,) pens the water […] consequently, if this were removed, and the channel above widened and deepended, […] the water might be reduced in dry seasons 4 feet within bank, which would render the meadows more firm and dry, and carry off small spattles of rain, without damaging the crops; but in the larger summer floods this improvement would avail but little,[…]”

“Both painters abjure movement—no blustery clouds or spattles of rain, few running or jumping humans. To be sure, dancers and horse-persons people Luke's "The Rehearsal" (1950, commissioned by Hewitt) but they are closer to figures in the mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry,[…]”

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