Obs. [f. SPATTLE v.1] Spitting; spittle.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 162. Pituita, i. minuta saliua, spatlung.

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a. 1240.  Lofsong, in O. E. Hom., I. 207. Bi his scornunge and bi his spotlunge and bufettunge.

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a. 1240.  Wohung, Ibid. 279. I for þe luue of þe þolede schome and bismere and schomeliche spateling of unwurði ribauz.

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1576.  Newton, Lemnie’s Complex., II. 106 b. Spettle, sweat, sneuel, spattling and Phlegme.

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1611.  Cotgr., Crachement, a spitting, spatling, spattering, spawling.

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