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spaulty, a. dial.|ˈspɔːltɪ| Also spoalty, spoulty. [f. spalt a. + -y1.] Dry and brittle.
1895J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk xix. 266 When turnips are hard and brittle..they are said to be spoalty, which William Ellis (1750) spells spalt, and Professor Skeat notes as a Cambridge-Shire word. 1904Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 643/1 Them turnips is spoulty. 1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 238 Did he promise me a set of iron cramps or ties for the roof? They never came to hand, or else they were spaulty or cracked. |