spawls

The masonry is rather rough, consisting of large stones, pretty well chinked with small spawls.

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Cosmos Mindeleff

The walls are composed of rather small stones; the interstices were chinked with spawls, and the masonry was laid up with an abundance of mud mortar.

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Cosmos Mindeleff

If there is one word that I would leave with the young bricklayer about to enter his trade it is "Beware of the spawls, my boy."

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

Another thing that a bricklayer has to be careful of, according to the author (and I have no reason to contest his warning), is the danger of stepping on spawls.

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

The tribes formerly had a quarry there, and the spawls and arrowheads and spear-points thus obtained were bartered from tribe to tribe, as were red pipestone calumets. —

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

_wording unchanged: "other figures" or omit "figures" _ the interstices were/chinked with spawls pretty well chinked with small spawls

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Cosmos Mindeleff

My whole point is that you can’t pick and choose your fights againist spawls.

PEC's "Clarion" Opposes Sprawl at cvillenews.com 2003