|
|
Definition of Spirtle
1. v. t. To spirt in a scattering manner.
Definition of Spirtle
1. Verb. To spurt in a scattering manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spirtle
1. a porridge stick [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirtle
Literary usage of Spirtle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lexilogus; Or, a Critical Examination of the Meaning and Etymology of by Philipp Karl Buttmann, John Roles Fishlake (1846)
"... with the ι and the meaning of to spirtle, can be proved to have been in actual
use. Lobeck, in a note on Soph. Aj. 1019. which I had overlooked, ..."
2. Lexilogus; Or, a Critical Examination of the Meaning and Etymology of by Philipp Karl Buttmann, John Roles Fishlake (1846)
"... with the i and the meaning of to spirtle, can be proved to have been in actual
use. Lobeck, in a note on Soph. Aj. 1019. which I had overlooked, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"[V. of Glos.] [Hund. of Berk.] [S.] SPIRT. vb. To sprout, shoot. [V. of Glos.]
spirtle. vb. To sprinkle. [V. of Glos.] [Hund. of Berk. ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"And out of the grass, on a sudden, broke A spirtle of fire, a whorl of smoke —
And Captain O'Neil of the Black Tyrone Was blessed with a slug in the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"North. SPIRT. Metaphorically, an interval, a brief space of time. North. spirtle.
To sprinkle. Drayton. SPIRT-NET. A kind of fishing-net, described in ..."
Other Resources:
