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sparable|ˈspærəb(ə)l|
Also 7 sparabile, sperrable, 9 sparrable, -bil.
[Reduced form of sparrow-bill.]
1. A small headless wedge-shaped iron nail (stouter than a sprig), used in the soles and heels of boots and shoes.
αa1627H. Shirley Mart. Soldier iii. i. in Bullen Old Pl., He would put Sparabiles into the soules then? 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sparables or Sparrow-Bills, a sort of small Iron nails, which some Country-People wear in their Shooes. c1780in C. Coleridge Life C. M. Yonge 3 [A letter..complaining that he had been sent to Oxford with] sparables in his shoes. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xxiv. (1842) 605 Burn a cast-iron sparable in the same manner. 1839Carleton Fardorougha vii, Why did you get..three rows of sparables in the soles o' them? 1877Blackmore Cripps (1887) 356 His heels had their sparables as good as new.
β1648Herrick Hesper., Upon Cob, Epig. 266 His thumb⁓nailes-par'd afford him sperrables. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Sparrables, short nails without heads, used by shoe-makers. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metals I. 216 The portions chopped off would be sparrables. 1893Moira O'Neill Dimpses 42 You could have counted the sparrabils in the soles.
2. attrib. and Comb., as sparable-cutter, sparable-paved adj.; sparable-tin (see quot.).
1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 79 The mowdieman's shoon being sparrable paved. 1864Smyth Cat. Min. Coll. 17 Cassiterite, in ditetragonally terminated crystals, locally termed ‘Sparable Tin’. 1884Times 8 Jan. 2/6 A ‘sparable-cutter’ is a personage well known among the nailers of Cradley and Halesowen. |