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Definition of Spraints
1. n. pl. The dung of an otter.
Definition of Spraints
1. spraint [n] - See also: spraint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spraints
Literary usage of Spraints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunting by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris, Edward William Lewis Davis, Digby Collins, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1886)
"When a fresh trail is hit on a rocky river, where a spit of sand is only occasionally
met with and a mud band never seen, the spraints dropped on the ..."
2. Hunting by Henry Charles Fitz Roy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"If the spraints—the odour of which is literally more like scented snuff than foul
excrement—are on the lower or down-stream side of the boulder, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts, Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling by Nicholas Cox, John Manwood (1721)
"... loon find, if there be an Otter in that Quarter : For an Otter cannot endure
long in the Water, but muft come forth to make his spraints, and in the ..."
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