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Webster 1913 Edition


Spelk

Spelk

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Noun.
[AS.
spelc
,
spilc
, a little rod by which a thing is kept straight, a splint for binding up broken bones, akin to Icel.
spelkur
, pl., a splint. Cf.
Spell
a splinter.]
A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.
[Prov. Eng.]
Grose.

Webster 1828 Edition


Spelk

SPELK

,
Noun.
A splinter; a small stick or rod used in thatching.

Definition 2024


spelk

spelk

English

Noun

spelk (plural spelks)

  1. (Northern English) A splinter, usually of wood.
  2. (Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
  3. (aeronautics, space) Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.

References

  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,

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