Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spelling of sparling.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.), Obs. or Prov. Eng. A tern.

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  • noun obsolete, UK, dialect A tern.

Etymologies

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See sparling.

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Examples

  • They are doing that by telling lies and spurling out hatred.

    WH may push through health care reform without Republicans 2009

  • Action/Adventure, Comic Book/Superhero, Television Commercials by Big Directors, Video Game, Halo, Rupert Sanders connor spurling this guy must make a halo movie it is what everyone want`s now the live action clip realy got to me and made me pause for a few second`s and i almost felt that what was happening in that clip was real if any one make`s the halo movie it should be Rupert Sanders karlpilkington

    Rupert Sanders’s Halo 3: ODST Commerical | /Film 2009

  • Labels: biography, costa/whitbread, hilary spurling, literary awards, whitbread book of the year posted by bibliobibuli at 8: 48 AM

    Monumental Matisse Sharon Bakar 2006

  • We pushed into the swirling waters and were presently running free, sending the spurling spray flying on both sides of the boat.

    A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

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