Spat

There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.

If I had known you had a spittoon in the corner I would never have spat on the floor.

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.

But Orata’s oysters were, like the dormice and fish, collected in the wild, as spat.

Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival of spat.

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.

get into a trivial spat over punctuality

have a vicious spat with the cousins

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.

He felt the wind of a second bullet that spatted against a boulder near Barney.

"She mentioned she had spatted Kelsey on her diaper with a hairbrush," said Mildred Johnson, a co-worker.

Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands.