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spall
v.
break or cut off chips or fragments; be broken into chips or fragments
n.
chip, flake, fragment (from a piece of stone, etc.)
Spall
Spall are flakes of a material that are broken off a larger solid body and can be produced by a variety of mechanisms, including as a result of
projectile impact,
corrosion,
weathering,
cavitation, or excessive rolling pressure (as in a ball bearing).
Spalling and
spallation both describe the process of surface failure in which spall is shed.
spall
Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) spawl
(hypernym) fragment
Spall
(v. t.)
To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
(v. t.)
To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
(v. i.)
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.
(n.)
The shoulder.
(n.)
A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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