1) Cooking utensil 2) Scottish cuisine 
The spurtle (or `spirtle`) is a Scots kitchen tool, dating from at least the fifteenth century. It was originally a flat, wooden, spatula-like utensil, used for flipping oatcakes on a hot girdle the Scottish equivalent to a griddle. Over time, the original implement changed shape and began being used specifically for stirring oatmeal and soups. .....
Scottish stirring stick for porridge
• (v. t.) To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.
wooden spoon
Spur'tle transitive verb [ Freq. of spurt .] To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [ Obsolete] Drayton.