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This lady had leaped on his back and was beating him about the head with a spurtle, uttering shrieks of condemnation.

The spurtle (or "spirtle") is a Scots kitchen tool, dating from at least the fifteenth century.

(This mush-stick is perhaps related to the spurtle, or the pudding stick of the nursery rhyme beating.)

The Broughton Spurtle is a community newspaper for Broughton.

My Dad believed in making 'proper' porridge, with just water, oats and salt, (and using a spurtle to stir it up), never felt hungry 'til lunch after a bowl of it though.

Yet every lane had its lively spark and every spark had its several spurtles and each spitfire spurtle had some trick of her trade, a tease for Ned, nook's nestle for Fred and a peep at me mow for Peer Pol.

Whether they are stirred in with a wooden spoon or, as McNeill advises, with a spurtle or a gruel-tree (Shetland usage) is probably optional, but the addition of cream or milk - never sugar - completes a winter experience that can only be described as truly halesome.