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spleeted

spleeted is the simple past and past participle of spleet.

Meaning of spleet

Verb (1)

spleet (third-person singular simple present spleets, present participle spleeting, simple past and past participle spleeted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To fit (a beehive) with slips of wood.
    • And this is the eaſieſt & quickeſt way of ſpleeting a hiue: it is alſo ſtrong enough for bearing the combs, and beſt for taking them forth without breaking. Beſides which there are divers ſortes of ſpleeting needleſſe to be rehearſed: for every country hath his faſhion.1609, Char[les] Butler, “Of the Hiues, and the Dressing of Them”, in The Feminine Monarchie. Or A Treatise Concerning Bees, and the Due Ordering of Them: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Ioseph Barnes...

Verb (2)

spleet (third-person singular simple present spleets, present participle spleeting, simple past and past participle spleeted)

  1. (ambitransitive, later chiefly Scotland) To split.
    • Piſcem exdorſuare, […] To ſpleete out, oꝛ part alongeſt the ridge bone iuſt in the midſt.1585, Adrianus Iunius, translated by Iohn Higins, The Nomenclator, or Remembrancer of Adrianus Iunius Physician, […], London: […] Ralph Newberie, and Henrie Denham, →OCLC, page 62, column 2

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Questions about spleeted

What is spleeted the simple past and past participle of?
Spleeted is the simple past and past participle of spleet.

Words near spleeted in the dictionary

  1. spleens
  2. spleenwort
  3. spleenworts
  4. spleeny
  5. spleet
  6. spleeted
  7. spleeting
  8. spleets
  9. splen-
  10. splenalgia
  11. splenative

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