splet

present singular third person splets · participle present spletting · participle past spletted · past spletted · alternative splette

1. obsoleteraretransitivelater dialectalTo split.

   e.Yks.¹ Ah laughed fit ta splet.

   1905, “SPLIT, v.”, in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 676, column 2

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   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 Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccclxix, verso, column 1; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC

   [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

   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 Moreman and Thomasin Moreman, as They Were Spinning. […], 6th (1768, indicated as 1668) edition, Exon: […] A. Brice and B. Thorn, […], →OCLC, page 14

   “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: […] S. S. Jones, […], →OCLC, chapter 2 (The Peddler.—Snow-Storm among the Hills.—Company at the Cottage.), page 110, column 2