Meanings
nounspaad (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountablechemistryA kind of spar; earthflax, or amianthus.
Of English talc, the coarser sort is called plaster or parget: the finer, spaad.
1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC
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Compare German Spat (“spar”).
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spaad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spaad
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“spaad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spaad. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spaad,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spaad.
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