Spalt

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.