spratting

noun

noun

Fishing for sprats.

The spratting season usually lasts from November to March, and, before the outbreak of the recent war, large consignments of sprats were despatched to the Continent, via Parkeston Quay and the train ferry.1947 November and December, C. Langley Aldrich, “The Brightlingsea Branch, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 383:

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