Definition of "spatting" []

• Present participle of spat. (verb)

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• "Having a little salt-water inlet, with a river running into it, he conceived the idea of breeding and raising oysters, but found the climate bad for "spatting," and now buys his tiny young oysters by the ten thousand at the Isle of Rhé, and puts them down in long perforated boxes on his oyster beds."
• "These impersonalities were as near "spatting" as Mr. and Mrs. Hodges ever got."
• "I was endorsed by Nike for seven years, but they voided my contract (after several warnings) for "spatting" my cleats on game-days."