spaad

Compare German Spat (“spar”).

• IPA^(key): /spɑːd/

spaad (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete) A kind of spar; earthflax, or amianthus.
   • 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:

     Of English talc, the coarser sort is called plaster or parget: the finer, spaad.

• Spada, adaps, padas