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Spiall vs Spall - What's the difference?

spiall | spall |

As nouns the difference between spiall and spall

is that spiall is (label) a spy; spies while spall is a splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone or spall can be (obsolete|rare) the shoulder.

As a verb spall is

to break into fragments or small pieces.

spiall

English

Alternative forms

* spyale spial

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (label) A spy; spies.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book I, lxvii:
  • *:For he by faithful spiall was assur'd, / That Egypt's king was forward on his way.
  • (label) The act of spying; espionage.

    • 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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