sparable

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of spareable.

noun

1. A small headless nail used in making shoes (especially the heels).

   “[H]e was sometimes seen disputing with the cobbler, his opposite neighbour, about the charge of two-pence; and refusing to pay Crispin's demand, unless he put three or four more sparables in the heels of the shoes which he had mended twice before!”