blue-back speller/spelling book
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blue-back speller/spelling book noun An elementary spelling book authored by Noah Webster and first published in 1783, still in use in the Smokies in the early twentieth century.
1939 Burnett Gap o’ Mountains 16 The conquering of Webster’s Blueblack speller was the first ambition of all students, and this was no easy task. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) We just had the old blue-back speller was all the study we had. 1969 Hall Coll (Mt Sterling NC) I never did get furder than Baker in the Blue Back Speller. 1999 Spencer Memory Lane II:5 In their declining years they often spoke of the “Blue Backed Speller.” It contained so much information other than spelling.