A Word A Day

This week’s theme: verbs.

spall (spal) verb tr., intr.

To break into small pieces; to splinter.

noun

A chip or splinter, especially of stone.

[Of unknown origin.]

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-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

“‘There’s concrete that’s been spalling away from the abutment,’ said
Brent Johnson, the city’s deputy director of engineering.”
Matt Lakin; TDOT’s Concrete Concerns; Knoxville News Sentinel (Tennessee);
Apr 19, 2008.

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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

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Dave