Spalled vs Spalted - What's the difference?
spalled | spalted |
(spall)
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:
(spalt)
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
As verbs the difference between spalled and spalted
is that spalled is (spall) while spalted is (spalt).spalled
English
Verb
(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 [...].
Anagrams
*spalted
English
Verb
(head)spalt
English
Noun
(-)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Halliwell)