n.; pl. speld and speldru (? or speldra (see below) from speldr. Cf. 'Spelder of woode esclat, Palsgrave. The schafte to spildurs spronge, Avow. of Arthur,' Halliwell's Dict.): speld, e; f. A splinter, a thin piece of wood used as a torch, a torch :-- On spelde in favillam, Anglia xiii. 35, 213. Speldum favillis, 36, 234, Ðara spaca speldra malleoli (tedas, 95, 26. Spelde tedas, 82, 29. [Will. speldes (splinters) of a broken spear. Mod. E. spell, spill. M. H. Ger. spelte splinter of a lance: Icel. speld, spjald; n. a tablet; spilda a flake: Goth. spilda a tablet.] speld