noun automotive (UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.

noun A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.noun The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.verb US, dialect To slap, as with the open hand to clap together, as the hands.verb transitive and intransitive To strike with a spattering sound.noun An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.To slap, as with the open hand to clap together as the hands.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.noun A kind of short cloth or leather gaiter worn over the upper part of the shoe and fastened beneath the instep - chiefly in pl.a verbal one a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension. noun United States Hence, a petty combat, esp.To engage in a trivial quarrel or dispute have a petty contest.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To give a light blow to, especially with the flat of the hand strike lightly slap: as, to spat dough to spat one's hands together.noun A petty contest a little quarrel or dissension.noun A large drop a spatter: as, two or three spats of rain fell.

noun The spawn of shell-fish specifically, the spawn of the oyster also, a young oyster, or young oysters collectively, up to about the time of their becoming set, or fixed to some support.noun A cloth or leather gaiter covering the shoe upper and the ankle and fastening under the shoe with a strap.intransitive verb To strike with a light spattering sound slap.intransitive verb To engage in a brief quarrel.noun A spattering sound, as of raindrops.noun A larva of an oyster or similar bivalve that has settled by attaching to a surface.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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