spelt
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈspɛlt/
- (chiefly, British) Simple past tense and past participle of spell
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v 1
- Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v 1
spelt (uncountable)
A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, ll mul, or a separate species ll mul or ll mul.
- (grain) dinkel wheat
- French: épeautre
- German: Dinkel, Spelz
- Italian: spelta
- Portuguese: espelta
- Russian: по́лба
- Spanish: espelta, escanda
spelt (plural spelts)
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
- (metalworking) Spelter.
spelt (spelts, present participle spelting; past and past participle spelted)
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