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spatule|ˈspætjuːl|
Also 7 spattule.
[a. OF. spatule (also mod.F.), ad. L. spatula spatula. Cf. MDu. spatule, spatele.]
1. = spatula 1.
a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 40 Anoynt it aboue þe sore wiþ a penne or feþer or wiþ a spatule. 1601Holland Pliny II. 508 Stirring it with spattules or ladles often⁓times in a day, vntill it be resolued into the vineger. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 294 Frequently stirring the bottom of your pan with the spatule. 1674Guidott 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. 1778Ann. Reg. 124/2 With a kind of wooden spatule he scrapes all the blood. 1905Blackw. Mag. May 630/2 A small ‘spatule’ in silver..which I acquired.
Comb.a1686Sir T. Browne Norf. Birds Wks. 1852 III. 314 They..are..remarkable in their white colour, copped crown, and spoon or spatule-like bill.
2. A spatulate terminal portion in the tail-feathers of a bird; a spatulate formation or part.
1873Proc. Zool. Soc. 430 For a long time its tail had perfect spatules. |