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Webster 1913 Edition

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.

a splinter.]

A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter.

[Prov. Eng.]

Grose.

Noun.

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