Definitions for spelt
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spelt, Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum speltanoun

   hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spalt or Speltnoun

   A white, scaly, shining stone, frequently used to promote the fusion of metals. Nathan Bailey

2. To Speltverb

   To split; to break. A bad word.

   Feed geese with oats, spelted beans, barley-meal, or ground malt mixed with beer. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

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1. Spelt

   Spelt (Triticum spelta), also known as dinkel wheat or hulled wheat, is a species of wheat that has been cultivated since approximately 5000 BC. Spelt was an important staple food in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times. Now it survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain, and it has found a new market as a health food. Spelt is sometimes considered a subspecies of the closely related species common wheat (Triticum aestivum), in which case its botanical name is considered to be Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta. Like common wheat, it is a hexaploid wheat, which means it has six sets of chromosomes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spelt

   of Spell

2. Spelt

   imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled

3. Speltnoun

   a species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat

4. Speltnoun

   spelter

5. Spelt

   to split; to break; to spalt

6. Etymology: [See Spell a splinter.]

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1. Spelt

   Spelt, also known as dinkel wheat, or hulled wheat, is an ancient species of wheat from the fifth millennium BC. Spelt was an important staple in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times; it now survives as a relict crop in Central Europe and northern Spain and has found a new market as a health food. Spelt is sometimes considered a subspecies of the closely related species common wheat, in which case its botanical name is considered to be Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta. It is a hexaploid wheat, which means it has six sets of chromosomes.

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1. Spelt

   spelt, n. a kind of wheat, probably only a race of common wheat, still grown in the mountainous parts of Europe and elsewhere—also called German wheat. [A.S. spelt—Low L. spelta.]

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1. • Wheat

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spelt' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4614

Anagrams for spelt »

1. slept

2. splet

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1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spelt in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spelt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of spelt in a Sentence

1. Arthur Rimbaud:

   For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

2. Coventry Patmore:

   Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

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