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▪ I. † reˈpele Obs. rare.
[? var. of repeal n.; but cf. med.L. repellus (Du Cange) as the name of some game.]
An additional stake in the Roman game of hucklebones.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 164 The caster..was of force constraigned in the waye of repele to laie down to the stake one peece of coyne. Ibid. The caster should wynne and take..all the repeles.
▪ II. repele, -pell
obs. forms of repeal n. and v. |