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- noun Plural form of
spatterdock .
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Examples
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The river did not look wide enough for two boats; but when the other whistle sounded as if it were quite near, we ran our boat close into shore among the spatterdocks, in
A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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Sometimes she would turn around a corner and make a short cut through a whole plantation of lily-pads and spatterdocks, -- or things like them, -- and she would scrape over a sunken log as easily as a wagon-wheel rolls over a stone.
A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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