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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Spall
//spɔːl//
Synonyms for "spall" (4 found)
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Related words (2)
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Translations
15 translations across 7 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- thepël noun (splinter of stone)
Bulgarian
3 entries- отломък noun (splinter of stone)
- ломя verb (to break into fragments)
- троша verb (to break into fragments)
Finnish
4 entries- siru noun (splinter of stone)
- mennä säpäleiksi verb (to break into fragments)
- pirstaloitua verb (to break into fragments)
- sirpaloitua verb (to break into fragments)
Polish
2 entries- odłamek noun (splinter of stone)
- rozpaść się verb (to break into fragments)
Romanian
1 entries- așchie noun (splinter of stone)
Russian
2 entries- обло́мок noun (splinter of stone)
- оско́лок noun (splinter of stone)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ulomak noun (splinter of stone)
- istucati verb (to break into fragments)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The failure of this bearing involved spall under high load.
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The inspection of this bridge abutment found extensive spall.
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Cobbed Ore is the ſpalled which is broke out of the ſolid large ſtones with ſledges
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