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单词 spall
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spalln.1

Brit. /spɔːl/, U.S. /spɔl/, /spɑl/
Forms: Also Middle English spalle, spolle, 1700s– spawl.
Etymology: Of doubtful origin: perhaps related to German spellen to split, but compare spale n.2
A chip or splinter, esp. of stone or ore.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > piece of stone > splinter of stone
schulderec1440
spallc1440
shalder1577
shiver1600
scabbling1790
knockings1875
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > shaving or chip
chipa1393
sprotea1400
chipping?c1400
spallc1440
clipping1461
spalea1500
chiplet1873
paint chip1891
α.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 467/1 Spalle, or chyppe (K. spolle), quisquilia, assula.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 411/2 Segmenta, the spalls or broken peeces of marble comming off in grauing and hewing.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Retailles, the spalls, or shards; the peeces which flie from stone in the hewing thereof.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Spalls, Chips of Wood.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2252/1 Spall, a chip of stone, removed by the hammer.
1892 Daily News 22 Oct. 5/4 A stock of granite spalls could be had in.
β. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §35 The great tendency of the Laminæ whereof the rock is composed, to rise in spawls.1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §112 (note) Observing how soon the quarrymen would cut half a ton of Spawls from an unformed block.1897 T. Hardy Well-beloved i. i. 8 Like all the gardens in the isle it was surrounded by a wall of dry-jointed spawls.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spalln.2

Etymology: < Italian spalla, or (in quot. 1827) variant of Scots spaul spauld n.
rare.
Shoulder.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > shoulder > [noun]
shouldera700
axlec1000
spauld1305
asselea1500
spall1590
spule1803
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R6 Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, And naked made each others manly spalles.
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. A. Musæus in German Romance I. 60 [I] catch the noodle by the spall,..and pack him out of doors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

spalln.3

Brit. /spɔːl/, U.S. /spɔl/, /spɑl/
Forms: Also spawl.
Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare spale n.3
A cross-spall; a cross-piece used in staging.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [noun] > anything lying transversely > cross-piece, -bar, or -beam
slote1485
crossbar1562
bail1575
cross-beam1594
traverse1604
bint1629
cross-yard1634
crown beam1776
cross-tie1813
cross-rail1836
stretcher1844
spall1895
1895 Whitby Gaz. 12 July 4/1 Boys frequently went up the spawls instead of the gangway because it was a shorter way on to the ship.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 23 June 5/2 These were fixed together at the top by spalls, and strengthened by struts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spallv.1

Brit. /spɔːl/, U.S. /spɔl/, /spɑl/
Forms: Also 1700s spal, 1800s spaul, spawl.
Etymology: Related to spall n.1
1. transitive.
a. Mining. To break (ore) into smaller pieces.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > dress ore
stamp1568
shadder1582
craze1610
tye1757
spall1758
toze1758
trunk1758
concentrate1771
to griddle out1778
jig1778
puddle1963
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 203 The best is broken small with hammers, which they call Spalling.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 215 Tin-stuff..is first spalled or broken to the size of a man's fist or less.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 233 They..spal or break them [sc. the larger stones] to a less size.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 52 The ore..is..drawn up, after being ‘spalled’ or broken.
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) xvii. 106 The ores, if in large masses, are first ‘spalled’, or broken up by means of heavy ‘spalling hammers’.
absolute.1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 164 There they sit, ‘spalling, jigging,’ ‘buddling and trunking,’ and doing all manner of mining mysteries.
b. To dress (stones) roughly with a hammer.
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1793 [implied in: J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 194 The spawled parts, parallel to the grain of the Rock. (at spalled adj. 1)].
?a1927 F. S. Anthony Follow Call (1936) ii. 22 I landed..on a patch of broken stone I had spalled up..for metalling in front of the stand.
2.
a. To split or chip; also, to detach as small fragments or particles. Also with off.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)]
to-cleavec888
cleavea1100
forcleavec1290
shidec1315
rivec1330
sheara1340
carvec1374
slivea1400
thrusche1483
porfend1490
splet1530
share?1566
spleet1585
splint1591
split1595
diverberate1609
fissure1656
spall1841
balkanize1942
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > in slivers or chips
chip?c1400
sliver1608
flake1661
spall1841
splinter1871
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Spauled, split, cleft, as wood.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 501 Should the fibres have been split, or spalled off in shooting the ends, the removal of the edge b..would correct the evil.
1971 Sci. Amer. June 29/2 As the shock wave traversed a gas bubble some of its energy would go into spalling liquid from the inner surface of the bubble and projecting it through the void to strike the bubble wall at the other side.
1973 J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. II. vi. 154 Thermal fracturing is a somewhat crude way in which material may be ‘spalled’ off the surface of a brittle material which has low thermal-shock resistance.
1980 M. Napier Blind Chance xii. 109 She looked at the huge chip of stone spalled off by a bullet.
b. Nuclear Physics. To cause spallation of (a nucleus).
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > remove from nucleus [verb (transitive)] > cause spallation
spall1976
1976 Nature 16 Sept. 201/1 Stronger shock waves..spall nearly all the nuclei to free nucleons.
3. intransitive. To break off in fragments or chips. Also without off.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off > split off
chinec1300
to flaw off1665
spall1853
sliver1880
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xl. 363 Spawling off under the axe in dangerous little chips.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §423 If this precaution is not taken the corners will ‘spawl’ off.
1940 K. Rexroth In what Hour 33 Novelty emerges after centuries, a rock spalls from the cliff.
1968 Engineering 26 July 171/3 These alloys would spall after enamelling.
1977 Sci. Amer. Feb. 35/1 High-energy impacts cause large pieces of the target to spall off.
1980 National Trust Autumn 14/2 Damp has penetrated the stone..and the corners have broken off or spalled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spallv.2

Brit. /spɔːl/, U.S. /spɔl/, /spɑl/
Etymology: Related to spall n.3
transitive. To fix (ship-frames) at the proper breadth by means of cross-spalls.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
berth1627
reconcile1633
ceil1691
frieze1769
skin1774
score1779
mould1797
ribband1805
fortify1820
horn1850
spall1850
convert1862
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 112 The main and top-timber breadths are the heights mostly taken for spalling the frames.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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