Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small fish split and dried in the sun.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun; -- called also speldron.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Scotland A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun.

Etymologies

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Scots speld ("to spread out"); compare German spalten ("to split").

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