spall /spɔːl/verb 3noun 3forms 3 verb3 •To break into fragments or small pieces.Cobbed Ore is the spalled which is broke out of the solid large stones with sledges — 1778 •To undergo weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate.When the bearing race spalled under high load, it led to the failure of the bearing.Once the concrete had spalled extensively, the bridge could no longer pass an honest inspection. •To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering. noun3 •A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.My father knew Bert Le Feuvre, the foreman of Griffith's yard, and there was a little heap of spawls waiting ready every night in summer after school for me to crack. — 1974 •A process of weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate.The failure of this bearing involved spall under high load.The inspection of this bridge abutment found extensive spall. •(no longer used, rare) The shoulder.Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles; […] — 1590 formsspalled · spalling · spalls
