spurrier

[Eng. spur; -ier.] One whose occupation is to make spurs. "That saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hun Bot.: The old genus Erpetion, now merged in dreds"-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. iii. IMG:content-0130.png:[blocks in formation] splutter. IMG:content-0131.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To fly off in small particles with a crackling noise. "When sparkling lamps their sputt ring light advance, And in the sockets oily bubbles dance." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic i. 537. 4. To make a spluttering noise in water. "The multitudinous sputtering and shuffling of their bills in the water." -Burroughs: Pepacton , p. 306. B. Transitive : 1. To eject or einit with a spluttering noise. "Lick'd their hi ing jaws that sputter'd flame." Dryden: Virgil's Eneid, ii. 279. 2. To utter rapidly and indistinctly; to jabber; to splutter out.