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sparrowbill

sparrowbill is the alternative form of sparable.

Meaning of sparable

Noun

sparable (plural sparables)

  1. A small headless nail used in making shoes (especially the heels).
    • [H]e was sometimes seen disputing with the cobbler, his opposite neighbour, about the charge of two-pence; and refusing to pay Crispin's demand, unless he put three or four more sparables in the heels of the shoes which he had mended twice before!1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 183

Forms of sparrowbill

pluralsparrowbills

Questions about sparrowbill

What is sparrowbill the alternative form of?
Sparrowbill is the alternative form of sparable.

Words near sparrowbill in the dictionary

  1. sparrow-hawks
  2. sparrow-lark
  3. sparrow-larks
  4. sparrow-weaver
  5. sparrow-weavers
  6. sparrowbill
  7. sparrowbills
  8. sparrowcide
  9. sparrowcides
  10. sparrowdom
  11. sparrowfart

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