Scall vs Spall - What's the difference?
scall | spall |
A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
* Bible, Leviticus xiii. 30
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 scall and spall
is that scall is a scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp while spall is a splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.As a verb spall is
to break into fragments or small pieces.scall
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is a dry scall , even a leprosy upon the head.
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 [...].