spall
a chip or splinter, as of stone or ore.
to break into smaller pieces, as ore; split or chip.
to break or split off in chips or bits.
Origin of spall
1Other words from spall
- spaller, noun
- non·spall·ing, adjective
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How to use spall in a sentence
If too dry, they are too brittle and you break up the kernels too much, also get too many spalls of shells.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting | Northern Nut Growers AssociationThe mortar employed in the construction is hard; the joints are chinked with spalls, fragments of pottery, or clay balls.
Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace | Jesse Walter FewkesThis room was found to be almost completely filled with spalls or broken stones.
Mesa Verde National Park | AnonymousOn the outside, the women laid up the well-shaped blocks in regular courses, chinking them with small spalls or potsherds.
Aztec Ruins National Monument--New Mexico | John M. CorbettSometimes broken pieces of pottery vessels were used for spalls.
Aztec Ruins National Monument--New Mexico | John M. Corbett
British Dictionary definitions for spall
/ (spɔːl) /
a splinter or chip of ore, rock, or stone
to split or cause to split into such fragments
Origin of spall
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