Sc. and U.S. [f. SPLATTER v.]

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  1.  A heavy or loud splash or spatter.

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1819.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 56. Chariots and horse-hoofs round did scatter Scamander’s sand wi spairge and splatter.

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1894.  Crockett, Raiders, xiii. (ed. 3), 122. Then came a splatter of musketry up the passage.

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  2.  An irregular assemblage.

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1895.  Advance (Chicago), 8 Aug., 192/2. [Boston] is a splatter of houses with lanes among them.

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