spelt¹ (spĕlt)
n.
A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.

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

spelt² (spĕlt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of spell¹.

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