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Definition of Spelt
1. Noun. Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed.
Definition of Spelt
1. n. A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
2. n. Spelter.
3. v. t. & i. To split; to break; to spalt.
Definition of Spelt
1. Verb. (chiefly British) (past of spell#Verb spell) ¹
2. Noun. A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, ''Triticum aestivum spelta'', or a separate species ''Triticum spelta''. ¹
3. Noun. (dialect Northern England Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spelt
1. a variety of wheat [n -S]
Medical Definition of Spelt
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spelt
Literary usage of Spelt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"spelt (Tr. sativum spelta Hackel).—Was largely and widely cultivated in ancient
times. Hackel states that it was the chief grain in Egypt and Greece and was ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"PLACE-NAME S. It may be of interest to record the various ways in which the names
of Berkshire towns were spelt in the middle of the seventeenth century. ..."
3. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
"spelt. — There is cultivated in parts of France, and in Flanders, ... The difference
between the weight of the grain of spelt with its husk on, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Wheat, barley, spelt (fitches), vetch, millet, pulse; rye and oats are neither
mentioned in Scripture nor cultivated in the ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Wheat, barley, spelt (fitches), vetch, millet, pulse; rye and oats are neither
mentioned in Scripture nor cultivated in the Holy Land. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"wrongly designated, or his name mis-spelt, he may indorse ^}l- Where in a bill
... adding, if he think fit, his Mis-spelt proper signature (r). payee or ..."
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