SPAWL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spawl mean? 

• SPAWL (noun)
  The noun SPAWL has 1 sense:

1. a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge

  Familiarity information: SPAWL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPAWL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

spall; spawl

Context example:

a truck bearing a mound of blue spalls

Hypernyms ("spawl" is a kind of...):

fragment (a piece broken off or cut off of something else)