Meaning of splet | Babel Free

Definitions

To split.

obsolete, rare, transitive

Examples

“I Splette a fyſſhe a ſonder / as a pyke oꝛ lynge oꝛ ſuche lyke / Ie ouuers, coniugate in I open. Some ſplet their pyckes whan they bꝛoyle them / but I wolde bꝛoyle them hole: […]”

“[T]he Ship will leake: nay / one bouncinge billowe will ſplet the Bark in peeces.”

“Oh the Dowl ſplet tha! who told theckee Strammer?”

““Splet the thing;” cried Hallibert; “talk ye o’ return, guid wife?[…]””

“e.Yks.¹ Ah laughed fit ta splet.”

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