speld
verb1
Northern England, Scotland, Dialectal To split.
- I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat.
- Related terms
- spald
speld
noun/spɛld/
Etymology From Middle English speld, spelde, from Old English speld (“a splinter; a chip of wood; torch”), from Proto-Germanic *speldą (“splinter, board”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).
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Northern England, Scotland, Obsolete A chip of wood; a splinter.