spattle

From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.

spattle (plural spattles)

1. A spatula.
2. A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.[1]

spattle

1. spawl; spittle
   • 1538, John Bale, Comedy concenynge thre lawes:

     I can worke wyles in battle , If I do ones but spattle

• “spattle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Plattes, let past, peltast