splette

English

Verb

splette (third-person singular simple present splettes, present participle spletting, simple past and past participle spletted)

  1. Alternative spelling of splet.
    • 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccclxix, verso, column 1; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
      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: […]
    • 1545, Roger Ascham, “The Seconde Booke of the Schole of Shotyng”, in Edward Arber, editor, Toxophilus. 1545. (English Reprints; 7), London: Alex. Murray & Son, […], published 1 July 1868, →OCLC, page 109:
      Some wyth holdynge in the nocke of theyr ſhafte too harde, rub the ſkyn of there fingers. For this there be. ii. remedyes, one to haue a gooſe quyll ſplettyd and ſewed againſte the nockynge, betwixt the lining and the ledder, whyche ſhall helpe the ſhoote muche to, […]
    • 1597, [Thomas Dawson], “To Boile a Pike Another Way”, in The Second Part of the Good Hus-wiues Iewell. […], London: […] E. Allde for Edward White, […], →OCLC, page 23:
      Take your Pike and pull out all hys guttes, and doo not ſplette your Pyke, but cut of his head whole, and cut his body in thꝛee oꝛ foure péeces, […]
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