spale

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See also: spalę and spále

English

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Etymology

From Middle English spale (“splinter”), perhaps partly from Old English *spalu (“flat bar, flake, chip”) or Old Norse spǫlr (“plank, rail, bar, short piece of wood”), both from Proto-Germanic *spaluz (“pole, rod, thin bar, lath”); and partly as an alteration of Old English speld (“ember, flake, torch, splinter, thin piece of wood used as a torch”), from Proto-Germanic *speldą (“that which is split, splinter, board”); both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pala-, *(s)pel- (“to split in two, split in half”). Cognate with Middle High German spale ("rung of a ladder"; > dialectal German Spale (“a wooden split, wedge”)), dialectal Swedish spalu (“splinter”), dialectal Norwegian spel, spela, spila (“a splinter”), Icelandic spölur (“bit, short piece”). See also split.

Pronunciation

Noun

spale (plural spales)

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A chip or splinter of wood.
  2. A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
  3. A strengthening cross timber.
  4. (shipbuilding) One of a number of cross-bands fastened temporarily to the frames to keep them in place until properly secured.
    Synonym: spaling

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *spatla, from Late Latin spatula, diminutive of Latin spatha.

Noun

spale f (plural spalis)

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

spale (Cyrillic spelling спале)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of spati

Participle

spale (Cyrillic spelling спале)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of spasti

Verb

spale (Cyrillic spelling спале)

  1. third-person plural present of spaliti
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