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spatterdash|ˈspætədæʃ|
[f. spatter v. + dash v. Cf. spatter-lash, -plash, and the dial. splatter-, spattle-dash(er).]
A kind of long gaiter or legging of leather, cloth, etc., to keep the trousers or stockings from being spattered, esp. in riding. Chiefly in pl.
sing.1687E. Ravenscroft Long Vac., Prol. to Titus Andronicus, Prepare to gallop down on Smithfield Titts, Equip'd with the Heel-Spur and Spatter-dash. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans III. 122 He generally left his stall,..which one day caused him the loss of two pair of breeches, and a spatterdash. 1778Sheridan Camp i. ii, There's a leg for a spatterdash. 1841Borrow Zincali i. v, The legs are protected..by a species of spatterdash, either of cloth or leather.
pl.1687[see spatter-lash]. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xii, The porter soon found him out, by his large greasy spatterdashes, his..hollow flanked mare [etc.]. Ibid. xxxii, Cows Leather Spatter-dashes. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 151, I had..made me a Pair of some-things..to flap over my Legs, and lace on either Side like Spatter-dashes. 1746in Rep. Comm. Ho. Commons II. 99 (Land Forces), Haversacks,..Frocks to go over the Mens Cloaths, Spatter⁓dashes, and Watering Caps. 1777W. Dalrymple Trav. Sp. & Port. xliii, His waistcoat and breeches are generally leather, with a pair of cloth spatterdashes on his legs. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 358 Dressed in a man's hat, a cloth overcoat, and spatterdashes. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iv. viii. (1872) II. 20 This done, he shall as rapidly as possible get on his shoes and spatterdashes.
b. Comb., as spatterdash-maker, spatterdash-making.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1902) 30 His talents of drum-beating and spatterdash-making. 1905Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 3/1 La Fleur,..ex-drummer and spatterdash-maker. |