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  • noun Plural form of spelt.

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Examples

  • Yes, prosecute locally ... by Amanda Lang on Wednesday, Nov 29, 2006 at 2: 46: 24 PM bush by larry spelts on Wednesday, Nov 29, 2006 at 2: 56: 45 PM

    Tell Our Congress To Rescind Bush's War Starting Powers 2006

  • By their houses they have sometimes a scaena or high stage, raised like a scaffold, or small spelts, reeds, or dried osiers covered with mats which gives a shadow and is a shelter ... where on a loft of hurdles they lay forth their corn and fish to dry ....

    The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton

  • They feed on grass, insects, the leaves of various shrubs in the Praries, and on the seeds of several species of spelts and wild rye which grow in the richer parts of the Plains. in the winter their food is the buds of the willow and Cottonwood also the most of the native berries furnish them with food. they cohabit in flock & the cocks fight very much at those seasons.

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • They feed on grass, insects, the leaves of various shrubs in the plains and on the seeds of several species of spelts and wild rye which grow in the richer parts of the plains. in winter their food is the buds of the willow & Cottonwood also the most of the native berries furnish them with food.

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • They feed on grass, insects, the leaves of various shrubs in the plains and on the seeds of several species of spelts and wild rye which grow in the richer parts of the plains. in winter their food is the buds of the willow & Cottonwood also the most of the native berries furnish them with food.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • It's ancient, perhaps the earth-mother of our wheats and spelts and barleys.

    RutlandHerald.com 2010

  • Besides which, they had very fine speckled spelts, called ‘enkeny,’ which might be worn only by the king and his peculiar favourites.”

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Besides which, they had very fine speckled spelts, called ‘ enkeny, 'which might be worn only by the king and his peculiar favourites. "

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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