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splet

splet verb: to split.

Verb

splet (third-person singular simple present splets, present participle spletting, simple past and past participle spletted)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive, later dialectal) To split.
    • I Splette a fyſſhe a ſonder / as a pyke oꝛ lynge oꝛ ſuche lyke / Ie ouuers, coniugate in I open. Some ſplet their pyckes whan they bꝛoyle them / but I wolde bꝛoyle them hole: […]1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan...
    • [T]he Ship will leake: nay / one bouncinge billowe will ſplet the Bark in peeces.1597, Henoch Clapham, Bibliotheca Theologica: or, A Librarye Theological […], Amstelrodam, →OCLC, folio 15, recto, column 1

Examples of splet in a sentence

  • Oh the Dowl ſplet tha! who told theckee Strammer?1746, [Peter Lock], “Bout the Second”, in An Exmoor Scolding; in the Propriety and Decency of Exmoor Language, between Two Sisters, Wilmot...
  • “Splet the thing;” cried Hallibert; “talk ye o’ return, guid wife?[…]”[1863], S[arah] S[mith] Jones, “The Heirs of Brentwood. A Border Tale.”, in Northumberland and Its Neighbour Lands, Newcastle upon Tyne...

Forms of splet

third-person singular presentsplets
present participlespletting
past participlespletted
pastspletted
alternative formsplette

Origin of splet

From Dutch or Middle Low German spletten, obscurely related to split and spleet.

Questions about splet

What does splet mean?
Splet means to split.
How do you use splet in a sentence?
Oh the Dowl ſplet tha! who told theckee Strammer?
What part of speech is splet?
Splet is a verb.
What is the past tense of splet?
The past tense of splet is spletted.

Words near splet in the dictionary

  1. splenovenographies
  2. splenovenography
  3. splent
  4. splent coal
  5. splents
  6. splet
  7. splette
  8. spleuchan
  9. spleuchans
  10. spleughan
  11. spleughans

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