sb. Obs. Sc. and north. [Related to SPELK sb.]

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  1.  A chip or splinter.

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1572.  R. Bannatyne, Jrnl. (1806), 388. The portcullious … fell down to the ground agane, and a part of a spelch therof fleing of, hurt Harie Balfour in the heid.

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1634.  Lowe’s Chirurg., 354. A little part of the bone is superficially separated like unto a little spelch or sclat.

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  2.  (See quot.)

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1677.  Nicolson, in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870), IX. 319. Spelch, a swathe band.

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