Noun: spreath
| Singular | spreath |
| Plural | spreaths |
Sample Sentences
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It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself. [1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:]
Nouns inflected like spreath
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Scots, from Scottish Gaelic sprèidh, from Middle Irish spréid (“cattle, wealth”), from Latin praeda (“plunder, spoils; profit; prey”), thus a doublet of prey. Per one hypothesis, also a doublet of spree. See: Latin Nouns '
praeda'.