Obs. [See SPITTARD above. The form corresponds to G. spiesser (also spiesshirsch, spitzhirsch, = older Flem. spieshert, Du. spithert).] A young deer with simple unbranched horns; a brocket or pricket; = SPITTARD.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Subulo, an harte hauynge hornes without tines, called a Spitter.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., X. (1593), 238. This goodlie spitter being void of dread … did haunt mens houses.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 336. The lungs of a red Deer, especially the Spitter of that kind.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xiv. 128. In others [sc. beasts] plaine and uniforme, without Tines, as in Spitters.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Isagoge B j. The hornes, in the stagge are ramous, simple in the spitter, palmate in others, ramous, and little in roes.
