spleet

noun

1. A small strip of split wood or willow.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   But if the hiue be more then fourteene inches ouer within, it may wel receiue foure ſpleets.

Where it comes from

From Middle Dutch spleet, splete or Middle Low German splete, North Frisian splēt, related to split.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry spleet (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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