Spelc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Spelc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: spilc Related words: 468, col. 1.

Definitions

1 spelc

a splint :-- Monegum men gescrincaþ his fét tó his homme ... dó spelc tó, Lchdm. ii. 68, 7. Wið foredum lime ... dó spilc tó apply a splint, 66, 23. [Spelke fissula, Prompt. ParSpelk a splinter or narrow strip of wood. 'To spelk in Yorkshire, to set a broken bone; whence the splints used in binding up of broken bones are called spelks,' Kennett MS., Halliwell's Dict. Icel. spelkur, spjalkir; pl. f. splints for binding up broken bones.]

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ᛋᛈᛖᛚᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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