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Spall
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone. countable
"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."
- 2 The shoulder. obsolete, rare
"Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]"
- 3 a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge wordnet
- 4 A process of weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate. uncountable
"The failure of this bearing involved spall under high load."
- 1 To break into fragments or small pieces. ambitransitive
"Cobbed Ore is the ſpalled which is broke out of the ſolid large ſtones with ſledges"
- 2 To undergo weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate. especially
"When the bearing race spalled under high load, it led to the failure of the bearing."
- 3 To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English spalle (“a chip”) (first documented in 1440), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Middle English verb spald (“to split”) (c.1400), from Middle Low German spalden, cognate with Old High German spaltan (“to split”).
From Middle English spalle (“a chip”) (first documented in 1440), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Middle English verb spald (“to split”) (c.1400), from Middle Low German spalden, cognate with Old High German spaltan (“to split”).
From Italian spalla.
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