spattling

Verb (1)

spattle (third-person singular simple present spattles, present participle spattling, simple past and past participle spattled)

1. (dated) To stir (something, typically ice cream) with a spattle (spatula).
   • 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[…]1815, Thomas BURFORD, The Friendly Instructor, Or Complete Guide to the Arts of Cookery, Confectionery, Pastry, Preserving, &c, page 27

Verb (2)

spattle (third-person singular simple present spattles, present participle spattling, simple past and past participle spattled)

1. (uncommon) To spit.
   • I can worke wyles in battle, If I do ones but spattle1538, John Bale, Comedy concenynge thre lawes

Verb (3)

spattle (third-person singular simple present spattles, present participle spattling, simple past and past participle spattled)

1. (uncommon) To sprinkle or spatter; to mottle.
   • 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 : […]1910, Shropshire Parish Register Society, Shropshire Parish Registers: Diocese of St. Aspah, page 487

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