Spalls

_spelling in original: more often "spalls" _ numerous expedients were resorted to to prevent ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

A whole section of the wall around the chimney spalls off. ❋ Sarah Smith (2010)

Perhaps my favorite excerpt laugh is: ...far from being a volume of tailings, or chips and spalls swept up from the workshop floor, there are some challenging, and at the very least, interesting poems in these pages that belie the usual connotations of an “uncollected” collection. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He cleaned the kitchen windowsill, dust, hair, fly heads, flakes of plaster—stony little spalls. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

He had gathered spalls of rock in a heap which delicately now, one by one, he plopped in the water. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

The surface of the earth had become distorted black glass, humped upward into spalls and twists which could not properly be called hills and twisted downward into deep cracks and folds which could not properly be called valleys. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (1991)

Then, with two carefully placed blows at one end of it, he detached a couple of spalls, leaving a sharp, chisellike point. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

On a concrete wall, depending upon the relative size of the charge and thickness of the wall, the crater and spalls meet and form a hole through the wall. ❋ Unknown (1971)

The plaster of this latter was reddened by fire but not fused; sand and sandstone spalls filled the lower ❋ Unknown (1964)

Sandstone spalls and chunks of dried mortar from the razed kiva added to the displaced rubbish. ❋ Unknown (1964)

But not far from the small ship he had discovered something more -- a campsite with a shelter fashioned out of spalls and vines, containing possessions a castaway might have accumulated. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

The chinking is distinctive in that spalls were not used, but more or less flattened river pebbles. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

It does not compare with the fine work found on the San Juan and its tributaries, although belonging to that type -- the walls being composed of two faces with rubble filling, and the interstices of the large stones being filled or chinked with spalls. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

Though the masonry of the modern pueblos does not afford examples of distinct bands, the introduction of the small chinking spalls often follows horizontal lines of considerable length. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

It will be noticed that chinking, both with mud and with spalls, was extensively practiced and seems here to have been an essential part of the construction. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

The masonry is good, being composed of selected stone well chinked with small spalls, and sometimes with bits of clay pressed in with the fingers. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)