See spleet on Wiktionary
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"text": "Your Hive being pruned put in your ſpleets, 3 or 4 of them, as the largeneſs of your hive ſhall require, the upper ends whereof ſet together at the top of the hive, and the lower faſten about a handful above the Skirt; beſides theſe ſpleets within the hive, the ſtraw hive muſt have 4 other ſpleets driven up into the Skirts to keep the hive from Sinking when it is Loaded, […]",
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"text": "[B]ind their ſtems together with a ſpleet of willow, or ſome tough wood, by wrapping it about them three or four times, and tucking the end under. […] a ſmall wreath, made of ſpleet, is ſlipped on the upper end of the ſtaff, which holds it together, and keeps the whole from falling about.",
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"text": "And this is the eaſieſt & quickeſt way of ſpleeting a hiue: it is alſo ſtrong enough for bearing the combs, and beſt for taking them forth without breaking. Beſides which there are divers ſortes of ſpleeting needleſſe to be rehearſed: for every country hath his faſhion.",
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"text": "But before we have done with the Hives, we muſt not forget the Spleeting of them. The way they uſually Spleet the ordinary Strawn and Daubed Hives, every Countrey Coridon underſtands.",
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"text": "Of the ſpleeting in the ſhoulder, or renting the ſhoulder from the breaſt of the Horſe.",
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"text": "[I]t offends mee to the ſoule, to heare a robuſtious perwig-pated fellowe tere a paſſion to totters, to very rags, to ſpleet the eares of the groundlings, […]",
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"text": "And at all times it is highly dangerous, for any not experienced with theſe Seas, 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, […] The ſignal defeat and overthrow of the Spaniſh Armado […] was eſpecially cauſed by ſtormy Winds and Tempeſts, some thereby ſinking at Sea, others ſpleeting upon the Coaſts both of England and France and eſpecially upon the North of Scotland, Orkney and Zetland; […]",
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"text": "Piſcem exdorſuare, […] To ſpleete out, oꝛ part alongeſt the ridge bone iuſt in the midſt.",
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"text": "[I]t offends mee to the ſoule, to heare a robuſtious perwig-pated fellowe tere a paſſion to totters, to very rags, to ſpleet the eares of the groundlings, […]",
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