spattle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spatula.
    — [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[…]
  2. Spawl; spittle.
    — ... he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether, and smereth the eyes, eares, and nosethrilles of the childe.
  3. A small spate; a slight inundation or a sprinkle of rain.
    — 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,[…]
  4. A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.
动词 v.
  1. To stir (something, typically ice cream) with a spattle (spatula). dated
    — Ice Creams. Put your cream in the freezing pot, set it in a tub, beat ice small and mix salt with it, put it round your freezer and turn it round, as it freezes spattle it down, if not hard set it again, serve it up in glasses[…]
  2. To spit. uncommon
    — I can worke wyles in battle, If I do ones but spattle
  3. To sprinkle or spatter; to mottle. uncommon
    — The windows […] were all shatter'd: about a foot square of the foundation seemed as if ramm'd in with a force that spattled the dirt as high as the Cornish : […]

词形变化

spattles plural spattles present,singular,third-person spattling participle,present spattled participle,past spattled past spattles present,singular,third-person spattling participle,present spattled participle,past spattled past spattles plural spattles present,singular,third-person spattling participle,present spattled participle,past spattled past

词源

From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.
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