A spelk is often a hazel of two or three years' growth. It is pointed at each end, and is three or four feet long, and is placed at right angles with the thatch to hold it down. Sometimes a bit of very neat work is displayed in the spelking of the thatch […]

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Continuous amassable entities like stuffs and activities contrast with things and events which are always at least cardinally countable and have unique and determinate spatio-temporal locations...