spelt, Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum spelta
(noun) hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
spell
(verb) take turns working; “the workers spell every four hours”
spell, import
(verb) indicate or signify; “I’m afraid this spells trouble!”
spell, spell out
(verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of; “How do you spell this word?”; “We had to spell out our names for the police officer”
spell
(verb) place under a spell
spell, write
(verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); “He spelled the word wrong in this letter”
spell
(verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn; “She spelled her husband at the wheel”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spelt
(chiefly, British) simple past tense and past participle of spell
spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)
A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
• (grain): dinkel wheat
• (grain): hulled wheat
• (grain): emmer (farro), einkorn wheat
spelt (plural spelts)
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
(metalworking) Spelter.
spelt (third-person singular simple present spelts, present participle spelting, simple past and past participle spelted)
(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.
• Pelts, pelts, slept
Source: Wiktionary
Spelt,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
Spelt, n. Etym: [AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta.] (Bot.)
Definition: A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
Spelt, n. Etym: [See Spalt.] (Metal.)
Definition: Spelter. [Colloq.]
Spelt, v. t. & i. Etym: [See Spell a splinter.]
Definition: To split; to break; to spalt. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Spell, n. Etym: [OE. speld, AS. speld a spill to light a candle with; akin to D. speld a pin, OD. spelle, G. spalten to split, OHG. spaltan, MHG. spelte a splinter, Icel. spjald a square tablet, Goth. spilda a writing tablet. Cf. Spillsplinter, roll of paper, Spell to tell the letters of.]
Definition: A spelk, or splinter. [Obs.] Holland.
Spell, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Spelling.] Etym: [AS. spelian to supply another's place.]
Definition: To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
Spell, n.
1. The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or wathing; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spellat the pumps; a spell at the masthead. A spell at the wheel isc called a trick. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
2. The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks. Nothing new hass happened in this quarter, except the setting in of a severe spell of cold weather. Washington.
3. One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells. [R.] Their toil is so extreme that they can not endure it above four hours in a day, but are succeeded by spells. Garew.
4. A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell. [Local, U.S.]
Spell, n.Etym: [AS. spell a saying, tale, speech; akin to OS. & OHG. spel, Icel. spjall,Goth. spill. Cf. Gospel, Spell to tell the letters of.]
1. A story; a tale. [Obs.] "Hearken to my spell." Chaucer.
2. A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm. Start not; her actions shall be holy as You hear my spell is lawful. Shak.
Spell, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spelled ( or Spelt (; p. pr. & vb. n. Spelling.] Etym: [OE. spellen, spellien, tell, relate, AS. spellian, fr. spell a saying, tale; akin to MHG. spellen to relate, Goth. spill.e Spell a tale. In sense 4 and those following, OE. spellen, perhaps originally a different word, and from or influenced by spell a splinter, from the use of a piece of wood to point to the letters in schools: cf. D. spellen to spell. Cf. Spell splinter.]
1. To tell; to relate; to teach. [Obs.] Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes. T. Warton.
2. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. "Spelled with words of power." Dryden. He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot. Sir G. Buck.
3. To constitute; to measure. [Obs.] The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect. Fuller.
4. To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y. Dryden.
5. To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. To spell out a God in the works of creation. South. To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident. Milton.
Spell, v. i.
1. To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing. When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell, And he a god, who could but read or spell. Dryden.
2. To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study. [Obs.] Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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