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- noun Plural form of
spittal .
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Examples
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On a summer morning that was, with the heat-haze hardly lifted and long slender threads of spider webs clinging to the leaves of the birches by the burnside, and the bracken green and strong, with the white cuckoo spittals on them that will leave a mark like froth on the knees of a horse.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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