Lexicographical Neighbors of Spalted
Literary usage of Spalted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"spalted wood and any of the woods with curly grain or bird's eye figure are in
... spalted wood is in very high demand within decorative wood markets. ..."
2. The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art: Your Guide to the Artful Home by Guild Sourcebooks, The Guild, Inc. (2006)
"spalted Wood that contains areas of natural decay, giving it distinctive markings.
spalted wood is used for its decorative effect. STILL LIFE A depiction of ..."
3. Afoot and Alone: A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures by Stephen Powers (1872)
"At the ends of it there stand up two isolated columns, like mighty beacons; one
barely spalted off the wall of balustrade, the other leaning threateningly ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1901)
"i\ disturb a stone about which the mortar had begun to »H. No stones were allowed
fo be broken, spalted, or li!«mmei>HÌ upon the wall, neither were swing ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1887)
"... had begun to set No stones were allowed to be broken, spalted, or hammered
upon the wall, neither weiv swing chains drawn out through the bed mortar. ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1877)
"No stones were allowed to be broken, spalted, or hammered upon the wall, neither
were swing chains drawn out through the bed mortar. ..."
7. History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota by Isaac Atwater (1893)
"This young man sorted out and tallied the grindstones, and put in a separate pile
all the "nicked and spalted" stones, which the purchaser, Mr. DC Jones, ..."
8. Notes from a Diary, 1886-1888 by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1900)
"Lubbock told us that a forester had recently said to him that some trees had been
terribly spalted. The man who used this German word came from East Anglia. ..."
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