"spelch" meaning in English

See spelch in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: spelches [present, singular, third-person], spelching [participle, present], spelched [participle, past], spelched [past]
Rhymes: -ɛltʃ Etymology: From Middle English spelc, or spilc (“little rod by which things are kept straight or a splint for binding up broken bones”), ultimately from Old Norse spelkur (“splints”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|spelc}} Middle English spelc, {{der|en|non|spelkur||splints}} Old Norse spelkur (“splints”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} spelch (third-person singular simple present spelches, present participle spelching, simple past and past participle spelched)
  1. (intransitive) To splinter while being crosscut. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-spelch-en-verb-A9jgvPQS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "spelc"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English spelc",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "spelkur",
        "4": "",
        "5": "splints"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse spelkur (“splints”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English spelc, or spilc (“little rod by which things are kept straight or a splint for binding up broken bones”), ultimately from Old Norse spelkur (“splints”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spelches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spelch (third-person singular simple present spelches, present participle spelching, simple past and past participle spelched)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Spelching can be avoided by cutting in from the outside face where possible.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To splinter while being crosscut."
      ],
      "id": "en-spelch-en-verb-A9jgvPQS",
      "links": [
        [
          "splinter",
          "splinter"
        ],
        [
          "crosscut",
          "crosscut"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To splinter while being crosscut."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛltʃ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spelch"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "spelc"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English spelc",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "spelkur",
        "4": "",
        "5": "splints"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse spelkur (“splints”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English spelc, or spilc (“little rod by which things are kept straight or a splint for binding up broken bones”), ultimately from Old Norse spelkur (“splints”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spelches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spelched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spelch (third-person singular simple present spelches, present participle spelching, simple past and past participle spelched)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old Norse",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛltʃ",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛltʃ/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Spelching can be avoided by cutting in from the outside face where possible.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To splinter while being crosscut."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "splinter",
          "splinter"
        ],
        [
          "crosscut",
          "crosscut"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To splinter while being crosscut."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛltʃ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spelch"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spelch meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.