sparablen.
/ˈsparəb(ə)l/ A small headless wedge-shaped iron nail (stouter than a sprig), used in the soles and heels of boots and shoes.
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β. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S5v His thumb-nailes-par'd, afford him sperrables.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sparrables, short nails without heads, used by shoe-makers.1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 216 The portions chopped off would be sparrables.1893 Moira O'Neill Dimpses 42 You could have counted the sparrabils in the soles.a1627 H. Shirley Martyr'd Souldier (1638) iii. sig. D4v He would put Sparabiles into the soales then?
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Sparables or Sparrow-Bills, a sort of small Iron nails, which some Country-People wear in their Shooes.
c1780 in C. R. Coleridge Life C. M. Yonge 3 [A letter..complaining that he had been sent to Oxford with] sparables in his shoes.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiv. 597 Burn a cast-iron sparable in the same manner.
1839 W. Carleton Fardorougha vii. 160 Why did you get..three rows of sparables in the soles o' them?
1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps (1887) 356 His heels had their sparables as good as new.
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C1. attributive and in other combinations, as sparable-cutter, sparable-paved adj.
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1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 79 The mowdieman's shoon being sparrable paved.
1884 Times 8 Jan. 2/6 A ‘sparable-cutter’ is a personage well known among the nailers of Cradley and Halesowen.
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sparable-tin n. (see quot.).
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1864 W. W. Smyth Catal. Min. Coll. Museum Pract. Geol. 17 Cassiterite, in ditetragonally terminated crystals, locally termed ‘Sparable Tin’.
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