† spelch, n. Obs. Sc. and north.
[Related to spelk n.]
1. A chip or splinter.
| 1572 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. (1806) 388 The portcullious..fell down to the ground agane, and a part of a spelch therof fleing of, hurt Harie Balfour in the heid. 1634 Lowe's Chirurg. 354 A little part of the bone is superficially separated like unto a little spelch or sclat. |
2. (See quot.)
| 1677 Nicolson in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870) IX. 319 Spelch, a swathe band. |