Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Spale (n.) A strengthening cross timber.
(2) - Spale (n.) A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.

(1) - Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.
(2) - Spall (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
(3) - Spall (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
(4) - Spall (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
(5) - Spall (n.) The shoulder.

(1) - Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.