Sparable

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small headless nail used in making shoes (especially the heels)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of headless nail used for the soles and heels of coarse boots and shoes.
  • Word Usage
    "Saw also the slippers which the worshippers of Mars put upon their martial feet when they enter into his temple -- slippers without a suspicion of shod, hob nail or sparable, with which the heels of the worshippers of Ceres in this country are armed."
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