† spelchn.
Obsolete. Scottish and northern.
1. A chip or splinter.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut or split off
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > splinter
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a1605 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scotl. (1806) 388 The portcullious..fell down to the ground agane, and a part of a spelch therof fleing of, hurt Harie Balfour in the heid.
1634 Lowe's Chirurg. 354 A little part of the bone is superficially separated like unto a little spelch or sclat.
2. (See quot. 1677.)
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1677 W. Nicolson Gloss. Cumbrian Dial. in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1870) 9 319 Spelch, a swathe band.
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