Lexic.us

Definition of Spalt

1. n. Spelter.

2. a. Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.

3. v. t. & i. To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.

Definition of Spalt

1. Noun. spelter ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of wood) brittle ¹

3. Verb. To break off pieces , especially with an axe etc; to splinter ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spalt

1. to split [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: split

Medical Definition of Spalt

1. Spelter. Origin: Cf. G. Spaltstein, from spalten to split. (17 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spalt

Literary usage of Spalt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"relating to cleavage, fissure, fission ; interstitial spalt-algen, pl. algae which ... spalt spalten, vt & i. to cleave, to slit, to chap, to fissure, ..."

2. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"Gooch's or kettle- holder splint — der Her/tone, reduplication of cardiac sound spaltungs-prozess, m. process of decomposition; process of fission spalt ..."

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