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▪ I. ˈspratty, a.1 rare.
[f. sprat n.1]
Containing or consisting of sprats.
a1880F. T. Buckland Nat. Hist. Brit. Fishes (1883) 282 Among the whitebait..there are a great many sprats. This is called ‘spratty stuff’.
▪ II. ˈspratty, a.2 Sc.
[f. sprat n.3]
Producing rushes; rush-like, rushy.
1808J. Veitch in Edin. Encycl. I. 253/1 A trial was made..on a piece of exceeding stiff spratty lee, with two ploughs of Small's construction. 1886J. Russell Remin. Yarrow iv. (1894) 75 Where it [the soil] is wet and spongy, the grass is long, coarse, and spratty. |