sprat
IPA: sprˈæt
noun
- Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
- Any of various similar fish of other genera.
- (by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
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Examples of "sprat" in Sentences
- I'll take a look at the SPRAT site.
- Hyperlophus is a genus of sprat fish.
- Sprat, flounder and perch are also popular.
- Young sprats are commonly known as brisling.
- Jack Sprat can reasonably be quoted in full.
- They mainly eat sprat, juvenile red cod and also squid.
- It and the Lake Tanganyika sprat are known collectively at kapenta.
- SPRAT moves by rolling but can only do so along level ground or down slopes.
- The Sprat and Winkle Line was built along and on the bed of the Andover Canal.
- Even Barack Obama might think that a very fat sprat to catch a rather bony mackerel.
- I loved his robot books and Lucky Starr novels when I was a sprat but as an adult, eh.
- But ever since I was a sprat I have been given this vague half-formed yet tremendously potent feeling that rock music meant something.
- There is Princess Gloriana amid sea demigods with conch-shell trumpets and mer-people and fishes of every size from sprat to leviathan.
- Lud-in-the-Mist was one of my very first fantasy books read it years ago when I was but a sprat and nothing has ever quite come up to that standard.
- Glissaundra is my godmother, bless her, and when I was a sprat she once gave me a jar filled with a powder that she said would restore things to their true forms.
- Truth be told, everything passed me by in the 1980's because that was our three babies in four years decade and mostly I was either a beached whale or a frazzled sprat.
- That most extensively employed in this country is the sprat, which is occasionally caught in enormous quantities on the Norfolk coast, and used as an application for turnips.
- They save the evil gods for the DMG since no right thinking young sprat would want their PC to worship one of them, but they do list them – Asmodeus, Bane, Gruumsh, Lolth, Tiamat, Vecna, and newcomers Torog (Underdark) and Zehir (dark, poison, assassins – Pyremius and Beltar merged).