Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scramble; a struggle.
- To scramble.
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Examples
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Ye see, we will suppose that any friend like yourself were in the deepest hole of the Nith, sand making a sprattle for your life.
Redgauntlet 2008
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And thro 'the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle [- sinking, scramble]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Ye see, we will suppose that any friend like yourself were in the deepest hole of the Nith, sand making a sprattle for your life.
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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