Spall

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A chip, fragment, or flake from a piece of stone or ore.
  • v. To break up into chips or fragments.
  • verb-intransitive. To chip or crumble.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
  • v. To break into fragments or small pieces.
  • n. The shoulder.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The shoulder.
  • n. A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
  • v. To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
  • v. To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
  • verb-intransitive. To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To split; splinter; chip; specifically, in mining, to chip or break up roughly, as ore, preparatory to sorting the material.
  • To keep (the frames of a ship) at their proper distance apart.
  • To splinter; chip; give off spalls.
  • n. A chip or splinter thrown off, as in chopping or hewing; now specifically, in masonry, a piece of stone chipped off by a blow of a hammer or mallet.
  • n. The shoulder.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge
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    spalled    spalling    spalls   
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    fragment   
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    chip   
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