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Definition of Spales
1. spale [n] - See also: spale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spales
Literary usage of Spales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1903)
"It ran either over or under the cross-spales, diagonally and between, ... The top
of the spales was from seventeen to eighteen inches above the deck of the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington by Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Genroy Kreider (1903)
"It ran either over or under the cross spales, diagonally and between, ... The top
of the spales was from seventeen to eighteen inches above the deck of the ..."
3. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"See CROSS-spales. CROSS-PIECE. The transverse timber of the bitts. ... CROSS-spales
OR SPALLS. Temporary beams nailed across a vessel to keep the sides ..."
4. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"Split, brittle, or decayed ; applied to timber. È. Sussex. spales, s. ... [See
spales.] A chip from a spout ?] North. stone. Somerset. ..."
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