spelkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English spelke, from 古期英語 spilc, spelc (“a splint”), from Proto-Germanic *spelkō, *spalkō, *spalkuz (“bast, splint”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /spɛlk/
• 韻: -ɛlk

名詞

spelk (複数形 spelks)

1. (Northern English) A splinter, usually of wood.
2. (Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
3. (Northern English) A rod or switch.
4. (aerospace) Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.

動詞

spelk (三人称単数 現在形 spelks, 現在分詞 spelking, 過去形および過去分詞形 spelked)

1. (transitive, Northern English) To use a spelk in or on.
   • 1884, Notes and Queries (page 193)

     A spelk is often a hazel of two or three years' growth. It is pointed at each end, and is three or four feet long, and is placed at right angles with the thatch to hold it down. Sometimes a bit of very neat work is displayed in the spelking of the thatch […]

参照

• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [3]

アナグラム

• kelps, skelp