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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Spattering

Spattering off in a steady stream, like a buck-shot spilling from a canister.
—Irvin S. Cobb

Lightning spattered the sky as a thrown egg spatters a barn door.
—Rudyard Kipling