Spall vs Spale - What's the difference?
spall | spale |
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:
A chip or splinter of wood.
A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
A strengthening cross timber.
(ship-building) One of a number of cross-bands fastened temprarily to the frames to keep them in place until properly secured; a spaling.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between spall and spale
is that spall is a splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone while spale is a chip or splinter of wood.As a verb spall
is to break into fragments or small pieces.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 [...].