different between sparable vs sperable

sparable

English

Etymology

From sparrowbill, in reference to its shape, like a sparrow's beak.

Noun

sparable (plural sparables)

  1. A small headless nail used in making shoes (especially the heels).
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 183:
      [H]e was sometimes seen disputing with the cobbler, his opposite neighbour, about the charge of two-pence; and refusing to pay Crispin's demand, unless he put three or four more sparables in the heels of the shoes which he had mended twice before!

Translations

See also

  • spareable

Anagrams

  • parables, parsable, prebasal

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sperable

English

Etymology

Latin sperabilis. Compare esperance and see -ible.

Adjective

sperable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Within the range of hope; proper to be hoped for.
    • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War
      found but a bladder, or discharge it of so much as is vain and not sperable

Anagrams

  • bepearls

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