A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
(metalworking) Spelter.
(chiefly Britain) simple past and past participle of spell
(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.