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Quotation dates: 1577-1626
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Sprot, n.1 Also: sprote, sprat, spreat. [17th c. Eng. spart (1614), mod. Eng. sprat (1780). Also in the later dial.] A rush, a coarse kind of grass. — a1578 Pitsc. I 336/9.
The fluir laid witht greine cherittis witht sprattis [I. sprottis, 1728 spreats] medwartis and flouris 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Juncus actius, a sprote 1626 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 197.
For fourtie braichhemis of sprottis and seggis
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