sparables

His shoes were of the double-soled description, which ought more properly to be called brogues; and into them, on the evening previous to his departure, his father had driven tackets and sparables innumerable, until they became like a plate of iron or a piece of warlike workmanship, resembling the scaled cuirass of a mailed knight in the olden time;

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837

No boy can slide on one leg now -- not a single shoe seems to have sparables.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

But, death alive, why did you get at this season o 'the year three rows of sparables in the soles o' them? "

Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831