Sc. Also sprait. Var. of SPRET.
a. 1600. Lindesay’s (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (1728), 146. The floors [were] laid with green scharets and spreats, medwarts and fowers.
1802. Leyden, Lord Soulis, lxvi.
| And on the spot, where they boiled the pot, | |
| The spreat and the deer-hair ne’er shall grow. |
1837. Glasgow Courier, in Boston Herald, 14 Feb., 4/2. The tenant of the farm … lately purchased a quantity of sprait, or coarse hay.
