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spall
[ spawl ]
noun
- a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
verb (used with object)
- to break into smaller pieces, as ore; split or chip.
verb (used without object)
- to break or split off in chips or bits.
spall
/ spɔːl /
noun
- a splinter or chip of ore, rock, or stone
verb
- to split or cause to split into such fragments
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Other Words From
- spaller noun
- non·spalling adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of spall1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of spall1
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Example Sentences
Spall says that, faced with the contradictions in the research, they created an amalgam of them.
Tim [Spall] could well be nominated and not win because Hollywood films tend to win.
Spall spent two years training to paint in preparation for the role.
Spall plays him brilliantly as a grumbling, grunting beast of a man whose sensitivity and kindness emerges slowly.
Spall was rewarded for his hard work with the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Mr. Joseph D. McGuire fabricates a grooved jade ax from an entirely rough spall in less than a hundred hours.
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