spoot


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spoot

(spuːt)
n
(Animals) Orkney & Shetland a razor-shell, a type of shellfish
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Although she wandered about in tattered rags, she was regularly seen washing her face and long blond hair in the purling waters of the Spoot Well in the Bluebell Woods.
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With an unmistakable Geordie twang, he recited the rhyme: "Wor little spuggy ran oop the wahter spoot. The rain came down and washed the spuggy oot."
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