noun
- Hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed.
- synonyms: Triticum spelta, Triticum aestivum spelta
verb
- Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of.
- usage: "How do you spell this word" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
- Indicate or signify.
- usage: "I'm afraid this spells trouble"
- Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
- usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
- Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn.
- usage: "She spelled her husband at the wheel"
- synonyms: spell
- Place under a spell.
- synonyms: spell
- Take turns working.
- usage: "the workers spell every four hours"
- synonyms: spell
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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