Spurting ppl. a.

[f. SPURT v.¹] That spurts; spirting.

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1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 187. The … spurting dash Of muttering fountain.

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1861. Paley, Æschylus, Choeph., 260, note. Burning in the spurting pitch of the pyre of pine-wood.

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1871. Stephens, in Archaeologia, XLIII. 101. What with the loose paper and the running ink, and the spurting pen.

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b. Spurting cucumber: see SPIRTING ppl. a. 1 b.

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1786. Abercrombie, Arr., in Gard. Assist., 18. Hardy Annuals…. Cucumber, spurting.

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