spelt

A type of wheat (Triticum spelta syn. T. aestivum subsp. spelta) having a tough hull. It was widely cultivated in southwest Asia, the Near East, and Europe during the Bronze Age and is now grown chiefly in Europe.

A kind of wheat commonly known as Triticum Spelta, but believed to be a race of the common wheat, Triticum sativum (T. vulgare).

A splinter, splint, or strip; a spell or spill.

To split; break.

A preterit and past participle of spell.

An unrecognized abbreviation of spelter, a commercial name of zinc.

imp. & p. p. of spell. Spelled.

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

Spelter.