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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sparling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. Sparling.

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  • noun UK, dialect sparling

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Examples

  • Professor Bellevue leaped out of the way, narrowly avoiding spirling splinter of wood.

    Dinosaur Ghost: Chapter 3 2010

  • The pinnaces, his four and the two from the Space-Scourge, had gone spirling out a hundred miles beyond the city; the Space-Scourge had gone into a tighter circle twenty miles from its center; the Nemesis had continued her relentless descent until she was ten miles from the ground, before she began spewing out landing craft, and combat cars, and the little egg-shaped one-man air cavalry mounts.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • i thought i was okay and i sit and watch it all unwind ... see it spirling away from me? xoxo now past profile guestbook mail vixi pic host

    simplymine Diary Entry simplymine 2002

  • Seems Toyota is spirling down the shit hole still, despite their claims that their products are safe and it's the drivers fault for defects.

    Quality Weenie 2009

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