Lexicographical Neighbors of Spauls
Literary usage of Spauls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"... of quarry spauls the object of which is to prevent the entry of burrowing
vermin, the growth of plants and the lapping action of water finding its way ..."
2. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1799)
"At Wymondham, Mrs. spauls, wife of Mr. spauls, fugar-baker. At Funden-hall, Mr.
Gray, fen. farmer. SUFFOLK. ..."
3. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1907)
"stone, and on this should be placed spauls* to bring the embankment to grade.
... The methods of timbering may differ, as for instance: •"spauls" are the ..."
4. Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams: Being a Practical Treatise on by William Lumisden Strange (1913)
"They shall be roughly squared and shall be fixed on a bed of spauls in a small
trench cut to take their extra depth. Where the ground is soft and liable to ..."
5. Indian Storage Reservoirs with Earthen Dams: Being a Practical Treatise on by William Lumisden Strange (1913)
"They shall be roughly squared and shall be fixed on a bed of spauls in a small
trench cut to take their extra depth. Where the ground is soft and liable to ..."
6. Building and Repairing Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1903)
"stone, and on this should be placed spauls* to bring the embankment to grade.
... The methods of timbering may differ, as for instance: •"spauls" are the ..."
7. Notes on Irrigation, Roads & Buildings & on the Water Supply of Towns by William Lumisden Strange (1920)
"... laid as close as possible to each other, and thereafter wedged tight by vertical
spauls driven into the interstices ; rough headers not less than 3 feet ..."
8. Bulletin by Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America (1910)
"These tufa blocks were laid in a mortar of adobe, which was driven against them
more securely by the insertion of rock spauls in the cracks of the masonry ..."
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