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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
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- 1noun
The shoulder.
- 2noun
A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
- 3transitive verb
To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
- 4transitive verb
To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
- 5intransitive 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.
- 6noun
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"
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