"spaller" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Decommissioning:",
          "text": "Concrete floors and walls can be mechanically decontaminated by removing the contaminated surface layer (1 to 2 inches) using surface grinders, spallers, or pneumatic drills.",
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          "ref": "1982, Roy L. Campbell, A Review of Methods for Concrete Removal, page 49:",
          "text": "The concrete spaller system contains a hydraulic power supply system and the spaller device. The spaller device, as shown in Figure 19, basically consists of a hydraulic cylinder, a push rod, and a bit.",
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          "ref": "2012, K. L. Mittal, Surface Contamination: Genesis, Detection, and Control, page 451:",
          "text": "The concrete spaller is a device which has been developed specifically for removing concrete surfaces by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL).",
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        "A tool used to remove concrete."
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          "ref": "1942, South Australian Industrial Reports, volume 16, page 369:",
          "text": "In 1919, the weekly margin above the living wage for the \"all others\" item was 6s., though the spallers then received 9s. a week margin and the millhands only 3s.",
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          "ref": "1997, Leigh Edmonds, The Vital Link: A History of Main Roads Western Australia: 1926-1996:",
          "text": "After them came men called spallers, who broke the rock down into smaller lumps, generally about three inches across, with sledgehammers.",
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          "ref": "2009, Lynne Mayers, Voices from the Dressing Floors 1773-1950:",
          "text": "Many days have I spent watching the female spallers breaking the stones. In the year 1899 I started to work at Dolcoath but there were not many spallers there then as they had just put in crushers which were worked by steam.",
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