See Also: nagor(medicine)
nagor(dictionary)

spall (iou) and nagor (iou)


spall (iou)



spall verb. M18.
[Rel. to SPALL noun1.]
verb trans.
a. Mining. Break (ore) into smaller pieces. M18.
b. Dress (stone) roughly. L18.
verb trans. & intrans. Break off or off in fragments; splinter, chip. M19.
verb trans. Nuclear Physics. Cause spallation of (a nucleus). L20.
spaller noun (Mining) a person who or machine which spalls ore M19.

nagor (iou)



nagor noun. Now rare. L18.
[French, arbitrarily formed by Buffon after earlier nanguer.]
A reedbuck, Redunca redunca, of savannah in equatorial Africa, with short forward-curving horns.