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Spalled vs Spawled - What's the difference?

spalled | spawled |

As verbs the difference between spalled and spawled

is that spalled is past tense of spall while spawled is past tense of spawl.

spalled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spall)

    • spall

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    *spawl

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break into fragments or small pieces.
    • (Pryce)
  • To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) spalla.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles [...].

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    spawled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spawl)

    • spawl

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • Scattered or ejected spittle
    • Derived terms
    * bespawl

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit

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