besprinkle

Verb

besprinkle (third-person singular simple present besprinkles, present participle besprinkling, simple past and past participle besprinkled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To sprinkle.
   • At this crisis the Sabine women, from the outrage on whom the war had arisen, with dishevelled hair and torn garments, the timidity natural to women being overcome by the sense of their calamities, were emboldened to fling themselves into the midst of the flying weapons, and, rushing across, to...1904, John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Roman History, Books I-III
   • We could still recognize the troughs that served for the manipulation of the bread, and the oven, the arch of which is intact, with the cavity that retained the ashes, the vase for water to besprinkle the crust and make it shiny, and, finally, the triple-flued pipe that carried off the smoke — an...1871, Marc Monnier, The Wonders of Pompeii