† spathern.
Obsolete. rare.
A spattle or spatula.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1178 Of this there is made a profitable spather or slice to be vsed in making of compounde plaisters and pessaries.
1657 Physical Dict. B iv Albation, is the abstraction of Dust..with a Hares foot, feather, spather, or such like.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > flat blade-shaped
spature1348
slicec1400
pallet?a1425
spatulea1425
spattlec1440
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lingel1598
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spathula1658
spatha1881
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. iii. xxix. 121 I have sometimes seen such passages so open, that they would receive the head of a Spathern [Fr. espatule].
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xv. vi. 567 That bone which is deprest must be lifted up with a spatherne, or little sticke.
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