spet in Middle English

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{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "spet"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "speate"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From speten.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "spet",
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    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spet (plural spets)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "name": "Late Middle English",
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          "source": "w"
        },
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        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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        "spittle"
      ],
      "id": "en-spet-enm-noun-~Q5e4lYf",
      "links": [
        [
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          "spittle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Late Middle English, hapax legomenon) spittle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spɛt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spet"
}

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{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "spet"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "speate"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From speten.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "spet",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spet (plural spets)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Late Middle English",
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English hapax legomena",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Middle English nouns",
        "Pages with 8 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "spittle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spittle",
          "spittle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Late Middle English, hapax legomenon) spittle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Middle-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/spɛt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spet"
}

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{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Late Middle English, hapax legomenon",
  "path": [
    "spet"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "spet",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Late Middle English, hapax legomenon",
  "path": [
    "spet"
  ],
  "section": "Middle English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "spet",
  "trace": ""
}

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"spet" meaning in Middle English

Noun