Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparables
Literary usage of Sparables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Labor in Europe and America: A Special Report on the Rates of Wages, the by Edward Young (1875)
"Stubbed heels and mock clinkers Forge-boots sparables and hobs Twos to fives,
... and hobs Sevens to tens, sparables and hobs Per dozen. ..."
2. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"Spars, sparables, nails, to enclose or shut up. ... [sparables are small nails;
his aim is to connect the word with spar, to shut. ..."
3. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1873)
"Spars, sparables, nails, to enclose or shut up. ... [sparables are small nails ;
his aim is to connect ..."
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