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Definition of 'spall'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)
Alternative forms
*spawl
Noun
( en-noun)
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.
Verb
( en-verb)
To break into fragments or small pieces.
- (Pryce)
To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) spalla.
Noun
( en-noun)
(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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