spall

spall is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The shoulder. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The shoulder.
2. noun. A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
3. transitive verb. To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
4. transitive verb. To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
5. intransitive verb. To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
6. noun. a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge

   "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls"

   Synonyms: spawl

Synonyms

spawl

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spall:

palls

Common word forms

spalls, spalled, spaller, spalling, spallable

Words from these letters

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