sput

See also: spùt

English

Etymology

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Noun

sput (plural sputs)

  1. An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sput”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Old French

Noun

sput oblique singular, m (oblique plural spuz or sputz, nominative singular spuz or sputz, nominative plural sput)

  1. alternative form of esput
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