ppl. a. Also spauled, spawled. [f. SPALL v.1]

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  1.  Dressed or broken with the hammer.

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1793.  Smeaton, Edystone L., 194. The spawled parts, parallel to the grain of the Rock.

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1867.  Ure’s Dict. Arts, II. 66. In the process of cobbing either ragged or spalled work, the greatest care … should be given [etc.].

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  2.  Spalled rubble (see quot. 1839).

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1839.  Sat. Mag., 16 Feb., 58/1. That kind of careful masonry, called [in Ireland] Spauled Rubble; in which small stones shaped by the hammer … are placed in every interstice of the larger stones.

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1888.  Stokes, Celtic Ch., 233. The tower is externally of ashlar or spawled rubble work.

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