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Definition of Spatterdocks
1. spatterdock [n] - See also: spatterdock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spatterdocks
Literary usage of Spatterdocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Southern Scenes: A Tale of Disunion! and Border War! by John Beauchamp Jones (1859)
"They are up to their knees in the mud and spatterdocks. ... To place my Secretary
of State in the mud and spatterdocks !" " He ordered Willy to do it," ..."
2. Pamphlets on Forestry. Fish and Game (1904)
"The spatterdocks have yellow flowers with five or six leathery sepals, and the
petals though numerous are inconspicuous. The waterlilies, on the other hand, ..."
3. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: Being a by John Fanning Watson (1870)
"He used also to speak with wonder of seeing hundreds of rats in the flats among
the spatterdocks at Pool's bridge, and that he was in the habit of killing ..."
4. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"Little by little they progres«, until suddenly they step from their sure fooling,
ami are over their heads in a moment without cork;- or spatterdocks to ..."
5. Trailmakers of the Northwest by Paul Leland Haworth (1921)
"... for the beaver lives almost wholly upon bark and twigs, though at times he
eats berries and the roots of such water plants as lilies and spatterdocks. ..."
6. Trailmakers of the Northwest by Paul Leland Haworth (1921)
"... for the beaver lives almost wholly upon bark and twigs, though at times he
eats berries and the roots of such water plants as lilies and spatterdocks. ..."
7. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1921)
"... palustri* L.5 On the side facing the open water of the stream the Wild Rice
is usually bordered by a fringe of spatterdocks, Nymphaea advena Soland, ..."
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