spall, spawl
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spawl (uncountable)
Scattered or ejected spittle.
spawl (third-person singular simple present spawls, present participle spawling, simple past and past participle spawled)
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit.
(obsolete, transitive) To say in a rough manner.
spawl (plural spawls)
Alternative form of spall
• Walps, pawls, plaws
Source: Wiktionary
Spawl, n.
Definition: A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.
Spawl, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. spatl, fr. spætan to spit; probably akin to spiwan, E. spew. Cf. Spew.]
Definition: Scattered or ejected spittle.
Spawl, v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Spawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Spawling.] Etym: [Cf. AS. spatlian.]
Definition: To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva. Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it In vain, against the people's favorite. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
