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Definition of Sprat
1. Noun. Small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines.
2. Noun. Small herring processed like a sardine.
Group relationships: Clupea, Genus Clupea
Generic synonyms: Sardine
Terms within: Brisling
Definition of Sprat
1. n. A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Definition of Sprat
1. Noun. Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the family ''Clupeidae''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sprat
1. a small herring [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sprat
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprat
Literary usage of Sprat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose: Selections edited by Henry Craik (1908)
"AN early biographer of sprat remarks that his name deserves the first rank ...
sprat is undoubtedly a versatile writer, his " relations " of matters of fact ..."
2. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1894)
"AN early biographer of sprat remarks that his name deserves the first rank ...
sprat is undoubtedly a versatile writer, his " relations " of matters of fact ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"The Proceedings against Dr. THOMAS sprat, Bishop of ROCHESTER,* before the Lords
of the Privy Council, con cerning a Plot to restore King James the Second ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1850)
"DR THOMAS sprat, bishop of Rochester (1636- 1713), is praised by Dr Johnson as
... Besides the works already mentioned, sprat wrote a Life of Cowley (1668), ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1812)
"Although, as we have seen, sprat readily enough acted under king James's illegal
ecclesiastical commission, yet, when king William, in the hope of promoting ..."
6. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"sprat in the famous passage of his History of the Royal Society; ... But sprat
is careful to point out that this was for the purposes of the Society —for ..."
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