Word | spall (n.) |
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Definition | n. A splinter or chip, esp. from rock or ore. |
Sentence | They bounced off streams of spall, while little chips now round...leaped up. |
Source | Baudolino, Umberto Eco, p. 357 |
Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary
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