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Spall N Splinter Chip Esp Rock Ore Bounced

Word spall (n.)
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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