Also 7 spattule. [a. OF. spatule (also mod.F.), ad. L. spatula SPATULA. Cf. MDu. spatule, spatele.]

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  1.  = SPATULA 1.

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a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 40. Anoynt it aboue þe sore wiþ a penne or feþer or wiþ a spatule.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 508. Stirring it with spattules or ladles oftentimes in a day, vntill it be resolued into the vineger.

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1658.  Evelyn, Fr. Gard. (1675), 294. Frequently stirring the bottom of your pan with the spatule.

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1674.  Guidott, Observ. at Bath, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), IV. 130. The very knives, and spatules, [which] I put in to stir some residence in the bottom.

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1778.  Ann. Reg., 124/2. With a kind of wooden spatule he scrapes all the blood.

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1905.  Sir. R. Hamilton Lang, in Blackw. Mag., May, 630/2. A small ‘spatule’ in silver…, which I acquired.

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  Comb.  a. 1686.  Sir T. Browne, Norf. Birds, Wks. 1852, III. 314. They … are … remarkable in their white colour, copped crown, and spoon or spatule-like bill.

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  2.  A spatulate terminal portion in the tail-feathers of a bird; a spatulate formation or part.

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1873.  Proc. Zool. Soc., 430. For a long time its tail had perfect spatules.

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