spleetEtymologyFrom Middle Dutch spleet, splete or Middle Low German splete, North Frisian splēt, related to split.spleet means A small strip of split wood or willow. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.nounA small strip of split wood or willow.“But if the hiue be more then fourteene inches ouer within, it may wel receiue foure ſpleets.”verbTo fit (a beehive) with slips of wood.“And this is the eaſieſt & quickeſt way of ſpleeting a hiue: it is alſo ſtrong enough for bearing the combs, and beſt for taking them forth without breaking. Beſides which there are divers ſortes of ſpleeting needleſſe to be rehearſed: for every country hath his faſhion.”To split.“Piſcem exdorſuare, […] To ſpleete out, oꝛ part alongeſt the ridge bone iuſt in the midſt.”