1786. Burns, To Auld Mare, xii. ’Till sprittie knowes wad rair’t an’ risket, An’ slypet owre.
1823. J. Hogg, Sheph. Cal. (1829), I. 27. His dead master, who … was lying in a little spritty hollow.
1885. A. Munro, Siren Casket, 42. Large spritty clods from tearing hoofs In showers around them flew.
