Cherte

/tʃɜɹt/ noun

An archaic or variant spelling of chert, a hard siliceous rock.

Middle English variant of 'chert,' reflecting older spelling conventions. The '-e' ending was common in Middle English for nouns, gradually dropping away as English spelling standardized in the 15th-17th centuries.

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