Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoot
Literary usage of Spoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"McBain looked to the boiling of the ' spoot-fush ' himself— again that there
should be no mistake ; and the time drew on till four o'clock in the evening, ..."
2. Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1886)
"THE spoot IN THE GLEN. It's no vera big—it's jist a wee spoot That comes oot o'
the breist o the brae, But it's sweet, and it's cule, and it's pure as the ..."
3. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1886)
"Forsaken though ye be, There ne'er will be a New Schule Will seem the same to me.
THE spoot IN THE GLEN. It's no vera big—it's jist a wee ..."
4. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1886)
"THE spoot IN THE GLEN. It's no vera big—it's jist a wee snoot That comes oot o'
the breist o the brae, But it's sweet, and it's cule, and it's pure as the ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"[To spoot, va and и. То spout, squirt, &c.; ... SPOUT, spoot, «. The Sheath, or
Razor- fish, S. ; Solen vagina, Linn. " Solen, the sheath, or razor-fish ..."
6. Maybole, Past and Present by Robert Lawson (1885)
"And the wee spoot aye rins, year in and year oot, And it asks neither fame nor
a fee, ... and ne'er think o' reward," Jist like the wee spoot in the Glen. ..."
7. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"SPONGE, v.—"A dead body is said to sponge when liquid comes k on the lips."—CH
Holgate in Stamford Mercury, Sept. 20, 1867. spoot.—A spout. ..."
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