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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See sparple.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive, obsolete, rare to scatter, disperse

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To scatter; to disperse; to rout.

Etymologies

  1. From Old French esparpiller ("to scatter"). (Wiktionary)

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  1. scatter
  1. disperse
  1. rout

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  • chained_bear "The sealers, uncertain of their direction, had to feel their way forward with their dogwood gaffs like blind men, crunching the snow with the cleats of their sparbles."
    —David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 71

    "Sparable, also sparble. Headless nail; sparrowbill. A short nail or cleat, used to stud heel and sole of a boot to prevent slipping on the ice; hobnail; chisel, froster."
    —Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 508 May 6, 2008

  • jennarenn Sparble means to scatter. The one time I heard it, it was in the context of houses being "sparbled around." Apr 20, 2007

  • trivet nice - even if it sounds more like a gait - just a bit faster than a shamble, perhaps? Apr 20, 2007

  • reesetee Quite a word! Apr 19, 2007

  • jennarenn I have been LOOKING for this word for ~ a year. I heard some old-timer use it last spring, but I misheard it as scarble. reid_burkland, you made my day!!!! Apr 19, 2007

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