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Definition of Sparable
1. n. A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.
Definition of Sparable
1. Noun. A small headless nail used in making shoes (especially the heels) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sparable
1. a type of nail [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparable
Literary usage of Sparable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"A sparable, ie a small nail used by shoemakers, is said to be a contraction of
sparrow-bill. The following quotation helps to prove it ‘Hob.nailes to serve ..."
2. A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1899)
"The form sparable occurs in Herrick's Upon Cob., ed. Hazlitt, I, 242. 15 30.
Venus' . . . brawls and bans. Bans, curses. As to Venus' brawls with her ..."
3. A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1899)
"The form sparable occurs in Herrick's Upon Cob., ed. Hazlitt, I, 242. 15 30.
Venus' . . . brawls and bans. Bans, curses. As to Venus' brawls with her ..."
4. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"sparable Tin. A name given in Cornwall to email crystals of Tin-stone, from their
imaginary resemblance to the particular kind of nail called a ..."
5. A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry by Albert Hill Fay (1920)
"See sparable tin. Separar (Sp.). To separate, classify, or sort. (Halse) Separation
coal (Eng.). Coal that has been prepared by screening or washing. ..."
6. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"... where very acute crystals of this type (with {321} and {521}) used to be found
in the tin mines of the Camborne district, they were known as " sparable ..."
7. Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain & Ireland by Robert Philips Greg, William Garrow Lettsom (1858)
"sparable tin, so called from its supposed resemblance to a particular kind of
nail termed a sparable, occurs in small, brilliant, pyramidal, ..."
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