imp. of spit.
2. spat ·- of spit.
3. spat ·noun a light blow with something flat.
4. spat ·vi to dispute.
5. spat ·add. ·noun a legging; a gaiter.
6. spat ·vi & ·vt to emit spawn; to emit, as spawn.
7. spat ·vt to slap, as with the open hand; to clap together; as the hands.
8. spat ·noun hence, a petty combat, ·esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension.
9. spat ·noun a young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively.
10. spat ·add. ·noun a kind of short cloth or leather gaiter worn over the upper part of the shoe and fastened beneath the instep;
chiefly in ·pl