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Definition of Spurtles
1. spurtle [n] - See also: spurtle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spurtles
Literary usage of Spurtles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke (1863)
"... drums, spurtles, pipe-bowls. The fruit mashed is considered a remedy for cough.
Wood ia impervious ti> insects, smells pleasantly, and is of a rosewood ..."
2. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"12 ' Far hae I ridden, And farer hae I gane, But siller-handed spurtles I saw
never nane.' 60 13 Hame came our goodman, And hame came he ..."
3. The Correspondence of William Cowper: Arranged in Chronological Order by William Cowper, Thomas Wright (1904)
"... My bird is washing himself and spurtles my paper, so adieu, my dear Mrs.
Frog, and believe me ..."
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