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English
Etymology
From Middle English sparplen, from Anglo-Norman esparpeler (compare Old French esparpeillier).
Verb
sparble (third-person singular simple present sparbles, present participle sparbling, simple past and past participle sparbled)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) to scatter, disperse
- c. 1509, Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, reprinted 1811 by Henry Ellis, page 636:
- but after longe fyght, the vyctory fell vnto the erle of Salesbury, and the other lordys vpon his partye, and the kinges hoost was sparbled and chasyd, and many of his noble men slayne
Middle English
Verb
sparble
- alternative form of sparplen