Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dung of the otter.
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- noun Common misspelling of
sprained . - noun A piece of
otter dung . Usually used when referring to the observation and tracking of otters.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Likely sites are searched for signs of otter presence such as paw prints or spraint - droppings.
River clean-up brings otters back from brink of extinction Stephen Bates 2010
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He tryed to imataet semafor bunneh and spraint hiz eer flap.
Van Gogh cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I spraint my shoulder ropin 'that steer an' I just be'n over to see doc an 'he says I should keep offen bad horses fer a spell.
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"I razer zink I am," returned the philosopher with a faint smile; "mine onkle, I zink, is spraint."
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"I razer zink I am," returned the philosopher with a faint smile; "mine onkle, I zink, is spraint."
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859
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Lark Rise Farm I saw one just days ago - fantastic, a kingfisher was spotted flying along the brook and I found an otter spraint under the brook bridge.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Lark Rise Farm I saw one just days ago - fantastic, a kingfisher was spotted flying along the brook and I found an otter spraint under the brook bridge.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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On another occasion, I showed the boys the foot of a baby moorhen that had been eaten by an otter and then showed them some otter spraint (droppings), explaining that otters always spraint when they have finished eating.
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As a result, otters spraint the place with particular emphasis: whose river is it anyway?
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In fact they may already be there - they can be hard things to see, and finding spraint and footprints is a specialist job.
chained_bear commented on the word spraint
See also spraints. Which you'd think, if you're an otter and you're going poo, you'd probably do more than one spraint anyhow. Right? Right?
May 13, 2011
reesetee commented on the word spraint
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going near that question.
May 13, 2011
deinonychus commented on the word spraint
Learning a new kind of excrement, heading over here... finding that of course it is listed at specific-excrement.
June 17, 2014