sparable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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!
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative form of spareable. alt-of,alternative

词形变化

more sparable comparative most sparable superlative sparables plural

词源

From sparrowbill, in reference to its shape, like a sparrow's beak.
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