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▪ I. spirtle, n.|ˈspɜːt(ə)l|
[Cf. next.]
A small spirt or jet; a sprinkle.
1881in Evans Leic. Gloss. 251. 1892 Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 115 Out of the grass, on a sudden, broke A spirtle of fire, a whorl of smoke.
▪ II. spirtle, v. Now dial.|ˈspɜːt(ə)l|
Also 7 spertle.
[f. spirt v.1 + -le.]
1. trans. To sprinkle, spatter, or splash with something. Also fig.
1603Drayton Odes (1619) xi. 28, I creepe behind the Time From spertling [= being spirtled] with their Crime. 1610–1J. Davies (Heref.) Paper's Compl. Wks. (Grosart) II. 76/1 He scraped mee With Pens that spirtled me with Villany. 1854–in midland and western glossaries.
2. To cause to spatter or splash; to disperse in small particles.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. ii. 283 The braines and mingled blood were spertled on the wall. 1704Phil. Trans. XXV. 1786, I suppose from some of the fouled Oyl of the Pump spirtled on the Wheels. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. i. iv. 34 The Terraqueous Globe..would by the centrifugal force of that Motion, be soon dissipated, and spirtled into the circumambient Space. 1749W. Ellis Sheph. Guide 117 A sharp rain that so bashes the earth and spirtles it upon the grass as to cause a rot on..sheep.
3. intr. To become dispersed or scattered.
1725N. Robinson Th. Physick 7 Without which Power this Globe of ours would spirtle into ten thousand Millions of Pieces. |