| 释义 |
spalled, ppl. a.|spɔːld|
Also spauled, spawled.
[f. spall v.1]
1. Dressed or broken with the hammer. More widely, broken off or chipped by spalling. Also spalled-off.
1793Smeaton Edystone L. 194 The spawled parts, parallel to the grain of the Rock. 1867Ure's Dict. Arts II. 66 In the process of cobbing either ragged or spalled work, the greatest care..should be given [etc.]. 1931G. W. Tyrrell Volcanoes ii. 67 Such rocks..may be distinguished from agglomerate by the..occurrence of fragments of spalled-off scoria in the interstices between the blocks. 1971Ann. Rep. Delegates Sci. Area Univ. Oxford 67 Coke ash slag on spalled ends of Steetley tarred dolomite blocks. 1975Country Life 9 Oct. 924/3 Spalled and fractured brickwork was cut out and replaced.
2. spalled rubble (see quot. 1839).
1839Sat. Mag. 16 Feb. 58/1 That kind of careful masonry, called [in Ireland] Spauled Rubble; in which small stones shaped by the hammer..are placed in every interstice of the larger stones. 1888Stokes Celtic Ch. 233 The tower is externally of ashlar or spawled rubble work. |