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noun
A small strip of split wood or willow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To fit (a beehive) with slips of wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To split.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
Qualifier: later chiefly Scotland
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History
From Middle Dutch spleet, splete or Middle Low German splete, North Frisian splēt, related to split.
Obscurely related to split. Compare the noun and rare Middle Low German spleeten.
