spelt

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I didn't feel the need to clarify in the post because I assume those interested in these types of restaurants know the restrictions of their current diet and whether spelt is acceptable or not.

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  1. noun A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.
  2. verb A past tense and a past participle of spell1.

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  • = BrE verb práctíse áppetîse pronounced but never spelt - ize ádvertîse. *éxpertêez expertìse silent u; pronounced but never spelt - ize disguîse pronounced but never spelt - ize advîse cf. noun devîce -- z verb devîse pronounced but never spelt * wîze wîse pronounced but never spelt - wize - wîse pronounced but never spelt - ize lîkewîse pronounced but never spelt - ize clóckwîse —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Your product label states that the product contains spelt, which is Triticum spelta L. —  foodconsumer.org
  • I didn't feel the need to clarify in the post because I assume those interested in these types of restaurants know the restrictions of their current diet and whether spelt is acceptable or not. —  blogTO
  • In another letter, ill-spelt, as her letters often are, she writes: 'Be assured that evil tongues, vapours, calumny, nothing can change my heart, which is yours entirely, and has no will to change its master.' —  Figures of Several Centuries
  • I have myself met with this word spelt in the following fifteen ways among our early writers: ‘sodain sodaine’, ‘sodan’, ‘sodayne’, ‘sodden’, ‘sodein’, ‘sodeine’, ‘soden sodeyn’, ‘suddain’, ‘suddaine’, ‘suddein’, ‘suddeine’, ‘sudden sudeyn’. —  English Past and Present
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin spelta, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch spelte, wheat.

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  1. from Middle English *spelt (not found), from Anglo-Saxon spelt = D, spelt = Middle Low German Low German spelte = Old High German spelta, spelza, spelzo, Middle High German spelte, spelze, German spelt, spelz, spelt; cf. German spelze, chaff, shell, beard of an ear of corn; = Italian spelda, spelta = Spanish Portuguese espelta = Provencal espeuta = Old French espiautre, French épeau-tre, spelt; from Late Latin spelta, spelt.
  2. A variant of speld, spald, perhaps confused with Middle English spelken, spilt: see spald, speld, spelk. Cf. spelt, n.
 

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