Spalt vs Spall - What's the difference?
spalt | spall |
spelter
(of wood) brittle
:Note : (US) Spalted wood is that which has been cut from a naturally cured, dead, or dying hardwood tree whose wood is normally light in color (such as pecan), and which exhibits patterns of dark stain (crazed) lines and splotches caused by microorganisms and/or fungus. Although slightly more brittle and porous than normal wood from the same species of tree, spalted wood nevertheless can be used to make decorative items and small pieces of furniture.
heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy
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.
To break into fragments or small pieces.
To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
(obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
As nouns the difference between spalt and spall
is that spalt is spelter while spall is a splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.As verbs the difference between spalt and spall
is that spalt is to break off pieces, especially with an axe etc; to splinter while spall is to break into fragments or small pieces.As an adjective spalt
is brittle.spalt
English
Noun
(-)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Halliwell)
Anagrams
* * ----spall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Alternative forms
*spawlNoun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Pryce)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) spalla.Noun
(en noun)- Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles [...].