·adj Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
II. Spalt ·noun Spelter.
III. Spalt ·adj Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
IV. Spalt ·adj To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an Ax.
brittle, applied to timber. Norf. and Suff. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose