spattle meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

spattle

noun

Etymology From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.

A spatula.

[Mix the] cream with an ice "spattle." When the cream gets to be of a certain consistency, the spattle may be held firmly in the freezer, which is to be spun round by means of the fingers on the rim until the whole becomes frozen hard. A good[…]1883, The Coffee public-house news, page 67:
[…] occasionally sprinkle a handful of salt on the ice while freezing, give a few turns and work it down smooth with the spattle; then turn until the cream is frozen even and smooth all through.1899, John Blandy, The Bakers' Guide and Practical Assistant to the Art of Bread Making in All Its Branches, page 211:

A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.

verb

Etymology From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.

Dated To stir (something, typically ice cream) with a spattle (spatula).

Ice Creams. Put your cream in the freezing pot, set it in a tub, beat ice small and mix salt with it, put it round your freezer and turn it round, as it freezes spattle it down, if not hard set it again, serve it up in glasses[…]1815, Thomas BURFORD, The Friendly Instructor, Or Complete Guide to the Arts of Cookery, Confectionery, Pastry, Preserving, &c, page 27:
The mixture is now ready for freezing, and should be poured into the freezer previously set up, and well spattled which it is freezing to give a fine smooth ice.1928, David Ellis, Dugald Campbell, The Science and Practice of Confectionery, page 215:

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[…] the cold custard, which must be put in a well set up freezer and frozen thoroughly and well spattled.2013 October 28, Henry G. Harris, S.P. Borella, About Ices Jellies & Creams, Routledge, →ISBN:

noun

Spawl; spittle.

... he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether, and smereth the eyes, eares, and nosethrilles of the childe.1888 [1555], The fardle of facions [by Joannes Boemus, tr. by W. Waterman from book 1 and 2 of Omnium gentium mores], page 81:

verb

Uncommon To spit.

I can worke wyles in battle, If I do ones but spattle1538, John Bale, Comedy concenynge thre lawes:
I would I had a fountain of spittle to spattle on them : I would my spittle might be of so great virtue against them as the words of St Paul[…]1842 [1554], John Philpot, The Examinations and Writings of John Philpot ..., page 313:

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He spattled. "It's brand new," said Hector Grimthorpe, indicating his Corvair.1977, John Clute, The Disinheriting Party: A Novel, London : Allison and Busby:

noun

A small spate; a slight inundation or a sprinkle of rain.

The caal^([sic]) or dam of Bankend-Mill, (Fact 12,) pens the water […] consequently, if this were removed, and the channel above widened and deepended, […] the water might be reduced in dry seasons 4 feet within bank, which would render the meadows more firm and dry, and carry off small spattles of rain, without damaging the crops; but in the larger summer floods this improvement would avail but little,[…]1812, Dr. Singer (William), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General View of the Agriculture, State of Property, and Improvements, in the County of Dumfries ..., page 496:
Both painters abjure movement—no blustery clouds or spattles of rain, few running or jumping humans. To be sure, dancers and horse-persons people Luke's "The Rehearsal" (1950, commissioned by Hewitt) but they are closer to figures in the mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry,[…]2015 September 10, W. J. McCormack, Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:

verb

Uncommon To sprinkle or spatter; to mottle.

The windows […] were all shatter'd: about a foot square of the foundation seemed as if ramm'd in with a force that spattled the dirt as high as the Cornish : […]1910, Shropshire Parish Register Society, Shropshire Parish Registers: Diocese of St. Aspah, page 487:
... spattled with nicotine, and measled with pricks from his hypodermic syringe.2015, Otto Penzler, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, Pantheon, →ISBN, page 432:

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