ˈsplatterdash rare.
[See spatterdash.]
A long gaiter or legging; a spatterdash.
| 1772 Nugent Hist. Fr. Gerund II. 261 White linen splatter-dashes with blue stripes beautiful to behold. 1881 A. M'Lachlan in Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets Ser. ii. 261 His legs they were..button'd upward to the knee Wi' great drab splatter-dashes. |