spat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. A past tense and a past participle of spit¹.
2. n. An oyster or similar bivalve mollusk in the larval stage, especially when it settles to the bottom and begins to develop a shell.
3. n. The spawn of an oyster or a similar mollusk.
4. v. To spawn. Used of oysters and similar mollusks.
5. n. A cloth or leather gaiter covering the shoe upper and the ankle and fastening under the shoe with a strap. Often used in the plural.
6. n. A brief quarrel.
7. n. Informal A slap or smack.
8. n. A spattering sound, as of raindrops.
9. v. To engage in a brief quarrel.
10. v. To strike with a light spattering sound; slap.
11. v. Informal To slap.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A spot; stain; place.
2. To spatter; defile.
3. n. 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. See
4. To spawn, as an oyster; shed spat.
5. To shed or emit (spawn), as an oyster.
6. n. A light blow or slap.
7. n. A large drop; a spatter: as, two or three spats of rain fell.
8. n. A petty contest; a little quarrel or dissension.
9. 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.
10. To engage in a trivial quarrel or dispute; have a petty contest.
11. A preterit of spit.
12. n. A gaiter or legging.

Wiktionary

1. v. Simple past tense and past participle of spit.
2. n. The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
3. v. To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
4. n. A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
5. n. automotive (UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
6. n. a brief argument, fall out, quarrel
7. v. to quarrel or argue briefly
8. v. transitive and intransitive To strike with a spattering sound.
9. v. US, dialect To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
10. n. An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. Obs. or R. imp. of spit.
2. n. A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
3. v. To emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
4. n. U.S. & Prov. Eng. A light blow with something flat.
5. n. United States Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
6. v. rare To dispute.
7. v. Local, U.S. To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
8. n. Scot. & Dial. Eng. A legging; a gaiter.
9. n. A kind of short cloth or leather gaiter worn over the upper part of the shoe and fastened beneath the instep; -- chiefly in pl.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. become permanently attached
2. v. clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
3. n. a young oyster or other bivalve
4. v. come down like raindrops
5. v. spawn.
6. v. engage in a brief and petty quarrel
7. n. a quarrel about petty points
8. v. strike with a sound like that of falling rain
9. v. clap one's hands together
10. n. a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles