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spelt 1  (splt)
n.
A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.
[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin spelta, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch spelte, wheat.]
spelt 2  (splt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of spell1.
spelt
Verb
a past of spell1
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Noun1.speltspelt - hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
Triticum aestivum spelta, Triticum spelta
wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
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After all happiness is spelt with different letters for all of us.
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Under cover of the night, the feeble-minded beadle comes flitting about Chancery Lane with his summonses, in which every juror's name is wrongly spelt, and nothing rightly spelt but the beadle's own name, which nobody can read or wants to know.
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His name was Sven Anderssen, his one pride being that his patronymic was spelt with a double "s.
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