Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
sparple .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To scatter; to disperse; to rout.
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- verb transitive, obsolete, rare to
scatter ,disperse
Etymologies
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From Old French esparpiller ("to scatter").
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jennarenn commented on the word sparble
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!!!!
April 20, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sparble
Quite a word!
April 20, 2007
trivet commented on the word sparble
nice - even if it sounds more like a gait - just a bit faster than a shamble, perhaps?
April 20, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word sparble
Sparble means to scatter. The one time I heard it, it was in the context of houses being "sparbled around."
April 20, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word sparble
"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