spatting

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.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

These impersonalities were as near "spatting" as Mr. and Mrs. Hodges ever got.

The Uncalled A Novel Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

I was endorsed by Nike for seven years, but they voided my contract (after several warnings) for "spatting" my cleats on game-days.

New Orleans Saints Central 2010

Thorny likes queer leaves and berries, you know, "answered Bab," spatting "down her rough locks.

St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868

So we raced along, behind us a howling, screaming bedlam of wrathful Greeks, Collinsville ahead, and bullets spat-spatting all around us.

Charley's Coup 2010

Still, as one commentor said, a reporter highlighting the normal spatting of a campaign is hardly a swiftboat attacker.

Report: Hillary Campaign Got An Unflattering GQ Article Killed 2009

Pica has thrown up a couple of times and Pixel has taken to hissing and spatting at Coby, first because he smelled bad and now because show much attention is paid to him.

Coby Diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure « Lab Kat 2007

I want to see some epic sci fi war with big ass guns and sawing some alien creature with blood spatting all over Cole and afterward him saying something like Yeah!

Gears of War Movie to Be an Origin Story? Possibly Taking Place on Emergence Day | /Film 2009

"Some folk see two Republicans spatting over who gets to call itself the Democratic Nominee."

A Word On Yesterday's Hillary-Obama Delegate Dust-Up 2009

Some folk see two Republicans spatting over who gets to call itself the Democratic Nominee.

A Word On Yesterday's Hillary-Obama Delegate Dust-Up 2009