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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of spell¹.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used chiefly for livestock feed.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English < Late Latin spelta, probably < Germanic; compare Old High German spelza (German Spelt)

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verb (used with object)

to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?

(of letters) to form (a word, syllable, etc.): The letters spelled a rather rude word.

to read letter by letter or with difficulty (often followed by out ): She painfully spelled out the message.

to discern or find, as if by reading or study (often followed by out ).

to signify; amount to: This delay spells disaster for us.

verb (used without object)

to name, write, or give the letters of words, syllables, etc.: He spells poorly.

to express words by letters, especially correctly.

Verb phrases

spell down, to outspell others in a spelling match.

spell out,

to explain something explicitly, so that the meaning is unmistakable: Must I spell it out for you?

to write out in full or enumerate the letters of which a word is composed: The title “Ph.D.” is seldom spelled out.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English spellen < Old French espeller < Germanic; compare Old English spellian to talk, announce (derivative of spell spell²), Old High German -spellōn, Old Norse spjalla, Gothic spillōn

Related forms

spell·a·ble, adjective

un·spell·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
5. foretell, portend, mean, promise.

noun

a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.

a turn of work so taken.

a turn, bout, fit, or period of anything experienced or occurring: a spell of coughing.

an indefinite interval or space of time: Come visit us for a spell.

a period of weather of a specified kind: a hot spell.

Australian. a rest period.

Archaic. a person or set of persons taking a turn of work to relieve another.

verb (used with object)

to take the place of for a time; relieve: Let me spell you at the wheel.

Australian. to declare or give a rest period to.

verb (used without object)

10.

Australian. to have or take a rest period.

Origin:
1585–95; (v.) alteration of earlier spele to stand instead of, relieve, spare, Middle English spelen, Old English spelian; akin to Old English spala, gespelia a substitute; (noun) akin to the v. (perhaps continuing Old English gespelia)

Synonyms
4. while, bit, piece.

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World English Dictionary

spell¹ (spɛl)

—vb , spells, spelling, spelt, spelled
1.	to write or name in correct order the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
2.	(tr) (of letters) to go to make up the conventionally established form of (a word) when arranged correctly: d-o-g spells dog
3.	(tr) to indicate or signify: such actions spell disaster for our cause

[C13: from Old French espeller, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse spialla to talk, Middle High German spellen]

'spellable¹

—*adj*

spell² (spɛl)

—n
1.	a verbal formula considered as having magical force
2.	any influence that can control the mind or character; fascination
3.	a state induced by or as if by the pronouncing of a spell; trance: to break the spell
4.	under a spell held in or as if in a spell

—vb
5.	rare (tr) to place under a spell

[Old English spell speech; related to Old Norse spjall tale, Gothic spill, Old High German spel]

spell³ (spɛl)

—n
1.	an indeterminate, usually short, period of time: a spell of cold weather
2.	a period or tour of duty after which one person or group relieves another
3.	(Scot), (Austral), (NZ) a period or interval of rest

—vb
4.	(tr) to take over from (a person) for an interval of time; relieve temporarily
5.	(NZ) spell a paddock to give a field a rest period by letting it lie fallow

[Old English spelian to take the place of, of obscure origin]

spelt¹ (spɛlt)

—vb
	a past tense and past participle of spell

spelt² (spɛlt)

—n
	a species of wheat, Triticum spelta, that was formerly much cultivated and was used to develop present-day cultivated wheats

[Old English; related to Old Saxon spelta, Old High German spelza]

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Word Origin & History

spell

"name the letters of," O.E. spellian "to tell, speak," infl. by O.Fr. espeller "declare, spell," from Frank. *spellon "to tell;" both O.E. and Frank. from P.Gmc. *spellan (cf. O.H.G. spellon "to tell," O.N. spjalla, Goth. spillon "to talk, tell"), from PIE *spel- "to say aloud, recite." Meaning "write

or say the letters of a word" is c.1400, from notion of "read letter by letter, read with difficulty" (c.1300). Spell out "explain step-by-step" is first recorded 1940, Amer.Eng. Spelling bee is from 1878 (earlier simply spelling, 1860).

spell

"incantation, charm," O.E. spell "story, speech," from P.Gmc. *spellan (cf. O.N. spjall, O.H.G. spel, Goth. spill "report, discourse, tale;" Ger. Beispiel "example;" see spell (v.1)). Meaning "set of words with magical powers, incantation, charm" first recorded 1579. Spellbound

is attested from 1799, from bound "fastened."

"The term 'spell' is generally used for magical procedures which cause harm, or force people to do something against their will -- unlike charms for healing, protection, etc." ["Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore"]

spell

"work in place of (another)," O.E. spelian "to take the place of," related to gespelia "substitute," of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to spilian "to play" (see spiel). The noun meaning "indefinite period of time" first recorded 1706.

spelt

O.E. spelt, perhaps an early borrowing from L.L. spelta "spelt" (c.400, noted as a foreign word), which is perhaps ult. from PIE base *spel- "to split, to break off" (probably in ref. to the splitting of its husks in threshing), which is related to the root of flint. The word

had little currency in Eng., and its history is discontinuous. Widespread in Romanic languages (cf. It. spelta, Sp. espelta, O.Fr. spelte, Mod.Fr. épeautre). The word also is widespread in Gmc. (cf. O.H.G. spelta, Ger. Spelt), and a Gmc. language is perhaps the source of the L.L. word.

Slang Dictionary

spell

n. Syn. {incantation}.

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Example sentences

It's somehow related to spelt but seemingly isn't spelt despite the fact that

many people present it as such.

People with wheat allergies can safely eat spelt as well as barley and rye,

while those with celiac cannot.

The final communiqué spelt out a package that did rather more than had been

expected.

Sink your teeth into the cake doughnuts topped with chocolate or cinnamon sugar