Spelt

Quick meaning: Spelt is a verb meaning (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.

Meaning

(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.

More Meanings

1. (metalworking) Spelter.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To grind or crush (grain or pulses).
3. A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
4. (chiefly British) simple past and past participle of spell
5. (obsolete, rare) Of dried beans: pounded, crushed, or split.

Example Sentences

spelted Beans

Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?

[H]alfe an houre after give him a pottell of Oates and a pinte of ſpelt Beanes, then a ſmall bottel of Hay: […]

Theſe loaves baked and cooled, after three days cut off the Cruſt, and with Oats well dryed and rubbed between your hands, being alſo winnowed and ſifted, and a quantity of the beſt ſpelt Beans; […]

Word Forms

• spelled
• spelts
• spelting
• spelted

Synonyms for spelt

Depending on context, synonyms include dinkel.

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