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sparble

English

Etymology

From Middle English sparplen, from Anglo-Norman esparpeler (compare Old French esparpeillier).

Verb

sparble (third-person singular simple present sparbles, present participle sparbling, simple past and past participle sparbled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) to scatter, disperse
    • c. 1509, Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, reprinted 1811 by Henry Ellis, page 636:
      but after longe fyght, the vyctory fell vnto the erle of Salesbury, and the other lordys vpon his partye, and the kinges hoost was sparbled and chasyd, and many of his noble men slayne

Middle English

Verb

sparble

  1. Alternative form of sparplen

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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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