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Webster 1913 Edition


Spall

Spall

,
Noun.
[OF.
espaule
; cf. It.
spalla
. See
Epaule
.]
The shoulder.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Spall

,
Noun.
[Prov. E.
spall
,
spell
. See
Spale
,
Spell
a splinter.]
A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.

Spall

,
Verb.
T.
1.
(Mining)
To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
Pryce.
2.
(Masonry)
To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.

Spall

,
Verb.
I.
To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; – said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.

Webster 1828 Edition


Spall

SPALL

,
Noun.
The shoulder. [Not English.]

Definition 2024


spall

spall

English

Alternative forms

Noun

spall (plural spalls)

  1. A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 13:
      My father knew Bert Le Feuvre, the foreman of Griffith's yard, and there was a little heap of spawls waiting ready every night in summer after school for me to crack.
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Verb

spall (third-person singular simple present spalls, present participle spalling, simple past and past participle spalled)

  1. (transitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pryce to this entry?)
  2. (transitive) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian spalla.

Noun

spall (plural spalls)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles [...].

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