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Spawl

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n.1.A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall.
1.Scattered or ejected spittle.
v. i. & t.1.To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva.
[imp. & p. p. Spawled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spawling.]
Why must he sputter, spawl, and slaver it
In vain, against the people's favorite.
- Swift.
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Noun1.Spawl - a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edgespawl - 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"
fragment - a piece broken off or cut off of something else; "a fragment of rock"


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