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▪ I. † spalt, n.1 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
A silly or foolish person.
1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman i. 26, I can no wayes excuse those Gossips..who are rapt in the companie of certaine Spalts [F. impertinés], so they have good clothes, or talk but of the Queene or Princesse. Ibid. ii. 59 What they only do of purpose to take some Spalt [F. insensé].
▪ II. † spalt, n.2 Obs.—0
[a. G. spalt: see spald v.]
(See quots.)
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iii. §3. 66 Metal[s]..used for..Making of Soder, being like Tinn, but more hard and brittle: Spelter, Zink, Spalt. 1728Chambers Cycl., Spalt or Spelt, a white, scaly, shining Stone, frequently used to promote the Fusion of Metals... The English Spalt is generally very hard. [Hence in Bailey, etc.]
▪ III. spalt, a. Now dial.
Also 8– spolt, spoult.
[Related to spalt v.]
Of wood: Brittle, short-grained; breaking easily through dryness or decay.
In some dialects also applied to other things.
1567Golding Ovid's Met. x. 100 Nor hazle spalt, nor ash whereof the shafts of speares made bee. 1577Harrison England ii. xxii. (1877) i. 341 The parke oke is the softest, and far more spalt and brickle than the hedge oke. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 113 The Beech is more spalt and short in it self than many others be. Ibid. 154 The Wind's Damage, that is often fatal to some of the Arms of this spalt, brittle Wood. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss. s.v. Spolt, The rafters of the church of Norwich are said to be spolt. 1787–in East Anglian glossaries (in form spouit). 1875Parish Sussex Dial. 110.
▪ IV. spalt, v. dial.|spɔːlt|
Also 8 spault.
[prob. ad. Du. and Flem. spalte (WFris. spjalte), = G. spalzen, related to spald v.]
intr. and trans. To split, tear, splinter, etc. Hence ˈspalting vbl. n.
1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xx. 291 It Spaults up from below the Staple. Ibid. 296 The Danger of tearing (or spaulting) up of the Under-Stratum along with the Staple. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Spalt,..to chip, to splint. Ibid., Spaltings, branches of trees that are broken off, or riven by the wind. 1876Surrey Gloss. s.v., I must get a mattick,..and spalt they old stubs off.
Restrict dial. to sense 1. Delete ‘Hence spalting vbl. n.’ and add: 2. intr. To become spalted.
1977Fine Woodworking Summer 51/1 Apple spalts, but oh boy does it crack!
Hence ˈspalting vbl. n.
1733,1854[see sense 1 above]. 1977Fine Woodworking Summer 50/1 Spalting is caused by water and fungus. 1980R. B. Hoadley Understanding Wood ii. 35 (caption) As certain white rots develop, dark zone lines form, as on this piece of sugar maple, above. This type of decay is called spalting. 1990Woodworker July 723/2 Beech..is excellent for carving on top of an already turned piece, as the spalting weakens the fibres in the wood. |