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SPRATTLE Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Sprattle definition: a struggle; fight.. See examples of SPRATTLE used in a sentence.
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SPRATTLE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
2 senses: 1. archaic to struggle or scramble 2. old-fashioned a struggle or scramble.... Click for more definitions.
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sprattle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(Scotland, intransitive) To scramble. Anagrams. edit · Platters, partlets, platters, prattles, splatter.
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sprattle
▪ I. ˈsprattle, n. Sc. [f. sprattle v.2] A struggle or scramble.1824 Scott Redgauntlet ch. xii, We will suppose that any friend like yourself were in the deepest hole in the Nith, and making a sprattle for your life.▪ II. † ˈsprattle, v.1 Obs. rare. [? Metathetic form of spartle v.1] intr. and trans...
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sprattle, v.¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
This word is now obsolete. It is only recorded in the Middle English period (1150—1500). Entry status. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of ...
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SND :: sprattle - Dictionaries of the Scots Language
‡SPRATTLE, v., n. Also spratle; sprottle; erron. spattle. I. v. To scramble, struggle, sprawl (Sc. 1808 Jam.; Abd. 1913; Ayr. 1923 Wilson Dial. Burns 187).
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Cowl (oast)
High in the roof of the kiln is a beam spanning the centre, called the sprattle beam, this carries a bearing which the pintle on the bottom of the centre
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A.Word.A.Day --sprattle - Wordsmith.org
MEANING: noun: A scramble or struggle. verb intr.: To scramble or struggle. ETYMOLOGY: From Scottish sprattle, from switching of sounds in spartle (to scatter).
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sprattle, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun sprattle is in the 1820s. OED's only evidence for sprattle is from 1824, in the writing of Walter Scott, ...
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Sprattle [SPRAT-l] (n.) - A scramble or struggle. - Facebook
- A scramble or struggle. - An eager, uncontrolled, or undignified struggle to obtain or achieve something. (v.) - To awkwardly flail about in a ...
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sprattle - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
Scottish Termsa struggle; fight. ?) Old French esparpeiller; metathetic variant of spartle to scatter, itself alteration of sparple (Middle English 1815–25.
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definition of sprattle by The Free Dictionary
Define sprattle. sprattle synonyms, sprattle pronunciation, sprattle translation, English dictionary definition of sprattle. vb archaic to struggle or ...
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yspraind
yspraind ysprengd(e, yspreynd, etc., yspratelid, ME. pa. pples. of sprenge v., sprattle v.1
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sprottle
sprottle, v. dial. (ˈsprɒt(ə)l) [Cf. spartle v.2, sprattle v.2] intr. To sprawl, to struggle helplessly. Hence ˈsprottling ppl. a.1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. 85 Sprottle, to struggle with inefficacious vehemence. 1839 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. 15 An we sprottlin abaht to ger up. 1917 D. H. La...
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Shiremark Mill, Capel
The main cross members were the breast beam, the sprattle beam and the tail beam, in order from head to tail.
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