spattles

Noun (1)

spattle (plural spattles)

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[…]1883, The Coffee public-house news, page 67
2. A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.

Noun (2)

spattle

1. Spawl; spittle.
   • ... he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether, and smereth the eyes, eares, and nosethrilles of the childe.1888 [1555], The fardle of facions [by Joannes Boemus, tr. by W. Waterman from book 1 and 2 of Omnium gentium mores], page 81

Noun (3)

spattle (plural spattles)

1. 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...1812, Dr. Singer (William), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General View of the Agriculture, State of Property, and Improvements, in the County of Dumfries ..., page 496

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