dial. Also 9 spel. [f. SPELL sb.2]
1. trans. a. To fit with bars or cross-pieces. b. To put into splints.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 61. The best way for spellinge of an hive is to putte in the two lowermost spelles aboute 4 wreathes from the bottome of the hive, and the two uppermost spelles just 4 wreathes above them.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., 138. The Doctor did not spell it while to-day.
2. trans. and intr. To splinter.
1815. Farey, Derbyshire, I. 367. On his return, [he] finds all the Vein-stuff so furrowed, spelled, or slappeted off.
1829. Glover’s Hist. Derby, I. 81. Where the hard 1st toadstone also, in the gates and shafts, thus spels off.
