sprattern.
1. dialect. The guillemot.
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1863 J. R. Wise New Forest Gloss. Spratter, the common guillemot (Uria troile).
2. A vessel or man engaged in sprat-fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for sprats
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > fishing for sprats
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1883 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log ix She may have been a pleasure-yacht in her day, but can never be so again; for once a spratter, always a spratter.
1883 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log ix Strange to say, spratters, especially in rough weather, rather dread getting the net full of fish.
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