Meaning of spall | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
   countable
2. The shoulder.
   obsolete, rare
3. A surname.
4. A process of weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The failure of this bearing involved spall under high load⟳.”

“The inspection of this bridge abutment found extensive spall.”

“Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]”

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