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Spelt

noun
1.
Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed.  Synonyms: Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta.


Spell

verb
(when related to words: past & past part. spelt or spelled; pres. part. spelling)  (when related to turns: past & past part. spelled; pres. part. spelling)
1.
Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of.  Synonym: spell out.  "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
2.
Indicate or signify.  Synonym: import.
3.
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word).  Synonym: write.
4.
Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn.
5.
Place under a spell.
6.
Take turns working.



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"Spelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... mines of Nertschinsk, in the ever-frozen Altai. We lost all we had on earth; seemingly we were always beaten; but Portugal and Spain enjoy to-day a constitutional regime that is an improvement on absolutism. France has expelled forever the Bourbons, and universal suffrage, spelt now by the French people, is a progress, is a promise of a great democratic future. Germany has in part conquered free speech and free press. Italy is united, Romanism is falling to pieces, Austria is undermined and shaky, and broken are the chains on the body of the Russian serf. ...
— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski
... which lightning is the visible sign—could be carried along upon metal wire. It has since been made out how to make the touch of a magnet at one end of these wires make the other end move so that letters can be pointed to, words spelt out and messages sent to any distance with really the speed of lightning. This is the wonderful electric telegraph, of which you see ...
— Young Folks' History of England • Charlotte M. Yonge
... together parts taken from Correggio, Raphael, Titian and other great artists. If Michael Angelo is the AEschylos of artists, and Raphael the Sophocl[^e]s, the Carracci may be called the Euripid[^e]s of painters. I know not why in England the name is spelt with only one r. ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... only visitor was an uncouth Swede, the Kincaid's unsavoury cook, who brought her meals to her. His name was Sven Anderssen, his one pride being that his patronymic was spelt with ...
— The Beasts of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... depenseur, or family provider. Hence comes the name of Le Despenser, which, therefore, should not be spelt Despencer. ...
— A Forgotten Hero - Not for Him • Emily Sarah Holt


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