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† theal, thele Obs.
Forms: (1 þelu, þel, þell), 6 thele, thel, theall, 7 (9 dial.) theal.
[In 16th c. thele, corresp. to OE. -þelu fem. occurring in comb. bencþelu (also neuter pl.) ‘bench-floor’, and buruhþelu ‘castle-floor’, agreeing in sense with þel, þell, neut., board, plank, floor, in one place ‘(iron) plate’. These point to OTeut. forms *þelâ fem., *þelom neuter, whence also *þeljon, *þiljōn, WGer. *þilljō, OE. þille, ON. þilja fem. deal, plank, OHG. dilla board, MLG. dele, Du. deel deal, plank: cf. also the Finnish borrowed word teljo. The long gap between the latest OE. example of -þelu and the Eng. thele, after 1500, is noteworthy; perh. the word came down within a limited district. Cf. the place-name þelwæl (O.E. Chron. an. 923), Thelwall in Cheshire.]
1. (OE.) A floor.
a900Beowulf 487 Eal benc-þelu blode bestymed. Cf. Ibid. 1239 Benc-þelu beredon: hit ᵹeond-bræded wearð beddum ond bolstrum. ]a1000Fight at Finnesburg 30 Buruhðelu dynede.
2. A board, plank, deal. Cf. deal n.3
1517in Market Harborough Rec. (1890) 220, I wyll yt Richard Page..shall have a lede, a mawnger, a rake and thelys, beynge at y⊇ sygne of Swanne in Harborow. 1521Nottingham Rec. III. 355 Item anoyer pres borde and a thele yat ley at the kychyn dore. 1562Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 110 For thele to mende the churche dore. 1586Churchw. Acc. St. Martin, Leicester in N. & Q. 6th Ser. VII. 249/2 Too plancke and too thels [for the library]. 1618in Archæologia XLIV. 402 Item 4 greate theales of 30 foot a piece 3 foot 3 inches broad and three inches thicke. 1624Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons App. p. lvii, Aug. 7. To Butlin 3 daies sawing theales, & 2 daies making a dore for Mris Segrave's house 00 05 00. 1847–78Halliwell, Theal, a board; a plank; a joist. Leic. |