spattle

noun

1. A spatula.

   “[Mix the] cream with an ice "spattle." When the cream gets to be of a certain consistency, the spattle may be held firmly in the freezer, which is to be spun round by means of the fingers on the rim until the whole becomes frozen hard. A good[…]”

   “[…] occasionally sprinkle a handful of salt on the ice while freezing, give a few turns and work it down smooth with the spattle; then turn until the cream is frozen even and smooth all through.”

2. A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.
3. Spawl; spittle.

   “... he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether, and smereth the eyes, eares, and nosethrilles of the childe.”

4. A small spate; a slight inundation or a sprinkle of rain.

   “The caal^([sic]) or dam of Bankend-Mill, (Fact 12,) pens the water […] consequently, if this were removed, and the channel above widened and deepended, […] the water might be reduced in dry seasons 4 feet within bank, which would render the meadows more firm and dry, and carry off small spattles of rain, without damaging the crops; but in the larger summer floods this improvement would avail but little,[…]”

   “Both painters abjure movement—no blustery clouds or spattles of rain, few running or jumping humans. To be sure, dancers and horse-persons people Luke's "The Rehearsal" (1950, commissioned by Hewitt) but they are closer to figures in the mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry,[…]”

verb

1. (dated)To stir (something, typically ice cream) with a spattle (spatula).

   “Ice Creams. Put your cream in the freezing pot, set it in a tub, beat ice small and mix salt with it, put it round your freezer and turn it round, as it freezes spattle it down, if not hard set it again, serve it up in glasses[…]”

   “The mixture is now ready for freezing, and should be poured into the freezer previously set up, and well spattled which it is freezing to give a fine smooth ice.”

   “[…] the cold custard, which must be put in a well set up freezer and frozen thoroughly and well spattled.”

2. (uncommon)To spit.

   “I can worke wyles in battle, If I do ones but spattle”

   “I would I had a fountain of spittle to spattle on them : I would my spittle might be of so great virtue against them as the words of St Paul[…]”

   “He spattled. "It's brand new," said Hector Grimthorpe, indicating his Corvair.”

3. (uncommon)To sprinkle or spatter; to mottle.

   “The windows […] were all shatter'd: about a foot square of the foundation seemed as if ramm'd in with a force that spattled the dirt as high as the Cornish : […]”

   “... spattled with nicotine, and measled with pricks from his hypodermic syringe.”