Definition of Spurling

1. n. A tern.

Definition of Spurling

1. a dialect name for the smelt [n -S]

Medical Definition of Spurling

1. A tern. See: Sparling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurling

spurious infection
spurious infections
spurious meningocele
spurious pregnancy
spurious torticollis
spurious wing
spuriously
spuriousness
spuriousnesses
spurless
spurlge
spurlged
spurlges
spurlging
spurlike
spurling (current term)
spurlings
spurn
spurne
spurned
spurner
spurners
spurnes
spurneth
spurning
spurningly
spurnings
spurns
spurnwater
spurnwaters

Literary usage of Spurling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1895)
"It is just to go to the pier with this parcel for Captain spurling—the ... You have only to hand the parcel to Captain spurling, and come away directly. ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"What did yon tee of this spurling. I saw him at madam Davenport's. Serj. ... spurling. But I suppose those that are under witchcraft are under such a spirit ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Law Relating to Trustees: Their Powers, Duties by James Hill, Francis Joseph Troubat, Henry Wharton (1854)
"(i) (s) Curtis v. Mason, ubi supra; and (i) Davis v. spurling, 1 R. & M. 64. see Bone c. Cooke, 1 M'Clel. 168; (i/) Birls v. Betty, 6 Mad. 90. Gregory v. ..."

4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1796)
"... faid that on spurling added, that on the day that the powder mills were blown ... wife with a writ again 11 spurling, at the fuit of another plaintiff, ..."

5. The New Practice of the Court of Chancery by Charles Stewart Drewry (1856)
"... tendered by any expletive word, if it substantially relates to it: (Davis v. spurling, 1 Russ. & Myl. 64.) XVIII. ..."

6. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"Mr. spurling. Mr. Chairman and honorable members of the Ways and Means ... You may proceed, Mr. spurling. The vegetable products which we ship to New York ..."

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