noun
- small chips or fragments that break off from stone, concrete, or metal
Usage: technical
verb
- to break off in small chips or fragments
Usage: technical
Examples
- The concrete wall showed spalls where chunks had broken away.
- Stone spalls littered the ground after the demolition.
- The mason swept up the spalls from cutting the granite.
- Heat damage caused the brick to spall badly.
- The old mortar spalls easily when disturbed.
- Workers collected the metal spalls for recycling.