SPELT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spelt mean? 

• SPELT (noun)
  The noun SPELT has 1 sense:

1. hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

  Familiarity information: SPELT used as a noun is very rare.

• SPELT (verb)
  The verb SPELT has 1 sense:

1. irregular form of the past simple and past participle of the verb spell

  Familiarity information: SPELT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPELT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

spelt; Triticum aestivum spelta; Triticum spelta

Hypernyms ("spelt" is a kind of...):

wheat (annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains)

• SPELT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Irregular form of the past simple and past participle of the verb spell

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

 Context examples 

"It's the Kanaka for 'finish,'" he explained, "and it just come out naturally. It's spelt p-a-u."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then the bay tried me with a second word, much harder to be pronounced; but reducing it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus, Houyhnhnm.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And not only did it appear that he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect for his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong, though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as a fine dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster, were bent on introducing themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could hear of his arrival.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The study shows how the consumption of the cereal-based bread, which contains a variety of flours (wheat, oats, and spelt) and contains 22% dried fruit (figs, apricots, raisins), sates the appetite more than standard breads and alleviates hunger in healthy adults.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)