sprat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
2. isim Any of various similar fish of other genera.
3. isim Anything petty or insignificant.
4. isim A sixpence.

   “The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.”

5. fiil To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).

   “[…] spratting the land. This treatment is supplemented by about half a ton of artificial manure, largely made up of a mixture of superphosphate and some nitrogenous manure.”