spleet

A small strip of split wood or willow.

But if the hiue be more then fourteene inches ouer within, it may wel receiue foure spleets.

Your Hive being pruned put in your ſpleets, 3 or 4 of them, as the largeneſs of your hive ſhall require, the upper ends whereof ſet together at the top of the hive, and the lower faſten about a handful above the Skirt; beſides theſe ſpleets within the hive, the ſtraw hive muſt have 4 other ſpleets driven up into the Skirts to keep the hive from Sinking when it is Loaded, […]

To 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.

But before we have done with the Hives, we muſt not forget the Spleeting of them. The way they uſually Spleet the ordinary Strawn and Daubed Hives, every Countrey Coridon underſtands.

To split.

Piſcem exdorſuare, […] To ſpleete out, oꝛ part alongeſt the ridge bone iuſt in the midſt.

Of the ſpleeting in the ſhoulder, or renting the ſhoulder from the breaſt of the Horſe.