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speld

/spɛld/

speld noun: a chip of wood; a splinter.

Noun

speld (plural spelds)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) A chip of wood; a splinter.

Verb

speld (third-person singular simple present spelds, present participle spelding, simple past and past participle speld)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To split.
    • I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat.

Forms of speld

Noun
pluralspelds
Verb
third-person singular presentspelds
present participlespelding
past participlespeld
pastspeld

Origin of speld

From Middle English speld, spelde, from Old English speld (“a splinter; a chip of wood; torch”), from Proto-Germanic *speldą (“splinter, board”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).

Words that rhyme with speld

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Questions about speld

What does speld mean?
Speld means a chip of wood; a splinter.
What part of speech is speld?
Speld can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce speld?
Speld is pronounced /spɛld/.
What is the plural of speld?
The plural of speld is spelds.

Words near speld in the dictionary

  1. spelaeology
  2. spelch
  3. spelched
  4. spelches
  5. spelching
  6. speld
  7. spelder
  8. speldered
  9. speldering
  10. spelders
  11. Speldhurst

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