[f. SPIT sb.2 or v.2 Cf. the variant spitting-devil.] A small sputtering fire-ball made from wetted gunpowder. Also ellipt. spitz.
1880. W. Carnegie, Pract. Trap., 15. Light it, and place it in the hole instead of the spitz. Ibid., 16. Alter having made a ‘spitz devil,’ as we called it at school, light it in the hole.
