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Definition: Spawl |
SpawlNoun1. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spawl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A small fragment broken from the face or edge of a material (as stone, metal, concrete, glass, or a ceramic product) and having at least one featheredge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | See:spall. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SpawlSynonym: spall (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spawl |
| English words defined with "spawl": Bespawl ♦ Spattle, Spawled, Spawling. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spawl": Bespawl. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "spawl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | udvaskes (break back, run out, spawl forward, spill out). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | afglijten (break back, run out, spawl forward, spill out). (various references) | ||||
French | épaufrure (spall). (various references) | ||||
German | abboeschen (banking, battering, break back, run out, sloping, spawl forward, spill out). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | awlspay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pawls. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-p-s-w" | |
-1 letter: alps, awls, laps, laws, pals, pawl, paws, salp, slap, slaw, swap, waps, wasp. | |
-2 letters: alp, als, asp, awl, lap, las, law, pal, pas, paw, sal, sap, saw, spa, wap, was. | |
-3 letters: al, as, aw, la, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-p-s-w" | |
+1 letter: pilaws, sprawl. | |
+2 letters: dewlaps, slipway, sprawls, sprawly, walkups, wallops, waspily. | |
+3 letters: cowflaps, lapwings, paleways, palewise, peafowls, pinwales, slipware, slipways, spillway, sprawled, sprawler, wasplike, whiplash, whooplas. | |
+4 letters: downplays, gangplows, moldwarps, playdowns, plowbacks, plowheads, plowlands, plowshare, ropewalks, showplace, sleepwalk, sleepwear, slipwares, spacewalk, spillways, sprawlers, sprawlier, sprawling, swampland, swordplay, wallopers, warplanes, waspishly, waxplants, whiptails, woolpacks, wordplays. | |
+5 letters: alpenglows, clampdowns, codswallop, crawlspace, drawplates, paulownias, pillowcase, plowshares, polywaters, showplaces, sleepwalks, spacewalks, splashdown, sprawliest, swamplands, swordplays, wallpapers, weaponless, whiplashes, workplaces. | |
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