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单词 spleet
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spleetn.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch splete (West Flemish splete ), spleet (Dutch spleet ) or Middle Low German (and Low German) splete, North Frisian splēt, related to split v.
Now dialect and rare.
A small strip of split wood or willow.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > of wood or metal
spleet1609
spline1756
slat1764
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iii. sig. C4v If the hiue be then fourteene inches ouer within, it may wel receiue foure spleets.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 60 Mr. Southern and others..advise, that if Bees finde fault with a Hive, and will not continue in it, to pull out the spleats.
a1679 J. Moore Englands Interest (1703) 104 Your Hive being pruned put in your spleets.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 2 Bind their stems together with a spleet of willow, or some tough wood.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 3 A small wreath, made of spleet, is slipped on the upper end of the staff.
1899– in Eng. Dial. Dict.

Derivatives

spleet v.1 Obsolete transitive to fit (a beehive) with slips of wood.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [verb (transitive)] > fit out hive
hackle1609
spleet1609
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iii. sig. C4v This is the easiest & quickest way of spleeting a hiue.
1661 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. (1681) 186 The way they usually Spleet the ordinary Strawn and Daubed Hives, every Countrey Coridon understands.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

spleetv.2

Etymology: Obscurely related to split v. Compare spleet n. and Low German spleeten (rare).
Chiefly Scottish.
transitive and intransitive. To split.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure
to-slita1250
rivea1400
slatterc1400
chapc1460
chip1508
gaig1584
spleet1585
split1595
chink1599
chawn1602
slent1605
slat1607
sliver1608
speld1616
crevice1624
checka1642
chicka1642
crack1664
splice1664
sleave-
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > cleave or split [verb (transitive)]
to-cleavec888
cleavea1100
forcleavec1290
shidec1315
rivec1330
sheara1340
carvec1374
slivea1400
thrusche1483
porfend1490
splet1530
share?1566
spleet1585
splint1591
split1595
diverberate1609
fissure1656
spall1841
balkanize1942
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 62/2 Piscem exdorsuare,..to spleete out, or part alongest the ridge bone iust in the midst.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 121 Mine owne tongue Spleet's what it speakes. View more context for this quotation
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. To Spleet a fish, een visch splyten.
1701 J. Brand Brief Descr. Orkney, Zetland 25 At all times it is highly dangerous..to pass through between the Isles, tho with small Boats, because of the many blind Rocks lying there, upon which sometimes the Inhabitants themselves do spleet.
c1730 W. Starrat in Ramsay Poems (1760) 222 We'll to the harning drive, When in fresh lizar they get spleet and rive.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xii. 194 Men..holding their sides, laughing like to spleet them.
1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 115 Spleet (to), to split.
1900 Shetl. News 22 Sept. (E.D.D.) Da auld axe ta spleet da lamb's head wi'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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