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5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge
originFrom Middle English spalle (“a chip”) (first documented in 1440), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Middle English verb spald (“to split”) (c.1400), from Middle Low German spalden, cognate with Old High German spaltan (“to split”).
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