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What is a spelk?

What is a spelk? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Northern English) A splinter, usually of wood.
  2. (Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
  3. (aeronautics) Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.
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Back in Newcastle, she plans to launch her own puppetry company, SPELK, to try to bring more puppetry to the North-East.
Spelk is non-standard English and comes from the Old English spelc, meaning split wood.
He is content that ye lay broken arms and legs on His knee, that He may spelk them.
Never mind how Steve Bruce looks now, he was as skinny as a spelk when he was a bairn.

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