spat

CEFRB2

/spæt/

noun · verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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They had a spat yesterday.
If I had known you had a spittoon in the corner I would never have spat on the floor.
There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.

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As spat-fall often occurs in areas away from environments suitable for oyster growing, the collection, transport and sale of oyster spat has developed into a separate industry.
2005, TVR Pillay, MN Kutty, Aquaculture: Principles and practices, page 525
But Orata’s oysters were, like the dormice and fish, collected in the wild, as spat.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 243
The downside of this cost-saving strategy was that the train service could only be covered by goodwill. Whenever there was a spat between ASLEF and management - regardless of cause - the withdrawal of this goodwill became a stick with which unions could beat management.
2022 November 16, Graham Eccles, “The Rest Day Working saga...”, in RAIL, number 970, page 32
Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat.
2011, The Pearl Oyster, page 256
If the spat are allowed to remain attached to the tank bottom for more than two days, they are difficult to remove without damage to the shell.
1988, Bivalve Mollusc Culture Research in Thailand, page 28

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From Old English spittan, spætan.