spit n EDD ~ sb3 2, and cp JOYCE 332 for sense 2; cp EDD sb1 13, JOYCE 142 for sense 3.
1 Frothy secretion enclosing the eggs deposited by a fly or insect on a drying cod-fish or other host object; cuckoo-spit.
T 36-64 You know what a fly-blow is? That's spit, where the flies spits those white lumps and [they] turns to maggots. C 70-28 The foam seen clinging to the base of the bud is called fly spit.
2 A spadeful (of potatoes) (P 48-60).
3 Phr like the spit out of one's mouth: identical (P 148-71).
4 Cpd spit jack: rove beetle (Creophilus maxillosus).
1979 TIZZARD 76 [In the outhouse] the buzzing of a few flies, the smell of the 'spit jack,' or the crawling of the woodlice on the floor, would be minimized by the heat of the sun.
