spleeting

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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