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Definition of Spalting
1. Noun. (context: woodworking) Any coloration of wood, either living or dead, by fungi, which is considered visually or texturally appealing. Biochemical responses by the tree are not included within the scope of spalting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spalting
1. spalt [v] - See also: spalt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spalting
Literary usage of Spalting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1895)
"... and by the addition of your lumber-room dirt and the salutary application of
the spalting-pot it became a Guido worth one hundred and thirty pounds. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1901)
"... by the spalting off of the angles or edges of the stones, or by the breaking
across of stones subjected to a transverse strain, and next by the crushing ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1887)
"Failure first shows itself by the spalting off of the angles or edges of the
stones, or by the breaking across of stones subjected to a transverse strain, ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Water-supply Engineering: Relating to the Hydrology by John Thomas Fanning (1877)
"Failure first shows itself by the spalting off of the angles or edges of the
stones, or by the breaking across of stones subjected to a transverse strain, ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Water-supply Engineering: Relating to the Hydrology by John Thomas Fanning (1877)
"Failure first shows itself by the spalting off of the angles or edges of the
stones, or by the breaking across of stones subjected to a transverse strain, ..."
6. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"... on the face of the brick, then by the edge of the square on the bed of the
brick, in order to enter the brick axe, and to keep the brick from spalting. ..."
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