spreat Sc.
Also sprait.
Var. of spret.
| a 1600 Lindesay's (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 146 The floors [were] laid with green scharets and spreats, medwarts and flowers. 1802 Leyden Lord Soulis lxvi, And on the spot, where they boil'd the pot, The spreat and the deer-hair ne'er shall grow. 1837 Glasgow Courier in Boston Herald 14 Feb. 4/2 The tenant of the farm..lately purchased a quantity of sprait, or coarse hay. |