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spelk

noun
/spɛlk/

Etymology

From Middle English spelke, from Old English spilc, spelc (“a splint”), from Proto-West Germanic *spelku, from Proto-Germanic *spelkō, *spalkō, *spalkuz (“bast, splint”). Cognate with Old Norse spjalkir (“bars, rails”, plural).

  1. inherited from *spelkō✻
  2. inherited from *spelku✻
  3. inherited from spilc
  4. inherited from spelke

Definitions

  1. A splinter, usually of wood.

  2. A wooden splinter caught under the skin.

  3. A rod or switch.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.

    2. To use a spelk in or on.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA