Crossword-Solution: SPALES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The roadway is torn away, cross heads, broken planks tossed here and there, planks gnawn and mumbled as if a starved bear had been trying to eat them, planks with spales lifted from them as if they had been dressed with a rugged plane, one pile swaying to and fro clear of the bottom, the rails in one place sunk a foot at least.

The floor was covered with shavings, or _spales_, as they are called by northern consent, which a poor woman was busy gathering into a sack.

But gin I was you, Curly, I wad tak Lucky a seck o' spales the morn." "I'll tak them the nicht, Alec.--Father, hae ye an auld seck ony gait?" "There's ane up i' the laft.

Gie's yer han'." Annie gave Alec her hand; and he lifted her out of her heap of spales, and led her away.

But the moment Thomas went, Alec, had taken Annie to the forge to get her well-dried, before he would allow her to occupy her old place in the heap of spales.