(1) Free from growth When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things – 1 Corinthians 13:11 Growth is fine for children, but adults stop growing when they reach maturity.
(2) So spake Mr Gradgrind, Dickens's dismal schoolteacher in Hard Times , published 1854.
Spale
Definition:
(n.) A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.