U.S. [f. SPLATTER v. Cf. spatter-dock.] The yellow pond-lily.
1832. J. P. Kennedy, Swallow B., xxv. (1872), 223. He does not fling away five hundred pounds … to maintain his title to a bed of splatterdocks.
1881. Harris, in Goode, Amer. Fishes (1888), 37. Large individuals are caught on the edges of the splatterdocks.
