spaad
See also: Spaad
English
Etymology
Compare German Spath (“spar”).
Noun
spaad (uncountable)
- (mineralogy, obsolete) A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus.
- Woodward
- Of English talc, the coarser sort is called plaster or parget: the finer, spaad.
- Woodward