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Spale
- - A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
Spall
- noun - a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge; "a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls"
Spams
- noun - a canned meat made largely from pork
- send unwanted or junk e-mail
- unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)
Spang
- verb - leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees"
Spank
- noun - a slap with the flat of the hand
- give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
Spans
- noun - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour"
- the distance or interval between two points
- to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
- two items of the same kind
Spare
- adjective - a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
- lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
- more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was s
Spark
- noun - a momentary flash of light
- a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency"
- a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"
- put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
- Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)