splette

present singular third person splettes · participle present spletting · participle past spletted · past spletted

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of splet.

   Take your Pike and pull out all hys guttes, and doo not ſplette your Pyke, but cut of his head whole, and cut his body in thꝛee oꝛ foure péeces, […]

   1597, [Thomas Dawson], “To Boile a Pike Another Way”, in The Second Part of the Good Hus-wiues Iewell. […], London: […] E. Allde for Edward White, […], →OCLC, page 23

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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

   Some wyth holdynge in the nocke of theyr ſhafte too harde, rub the ſkyn of there fingers. For this there be. ii. remedyes, one to haue a gooſe quyll ſplettyd and ſewed againſte the nockynge, betwixt the lining and the ledder, whyche ſhall helpe the ſhoote muche to, […]

   1545, Roger Ascham, “The Seconde Booke of the Schole of Shotyng”, in Edward Arber, editor, Toxophilus. 1545. (English Reprints; 7), London: Alex. Murray & Son, […], published 1 July 1868, →OCLC, page 109