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▪ I. pell, n.1 Obs. exc. Hist.|pɛl|
Forms: 4 pel, 5 peall, pele, peele, peell, pelle, 6 pyll, 6– pell.
[ME. a. AF. pell, peal, OF. pel (13th c. in Littré), mod.F. peau (= Pr. pel, pelh, Cat. pell, Sp. piel, It. pelle):—L. pell-em skin, leather, parchment.]
†1. A skin or hide; esp. a furred skin used as or forming the lining or trimming of a cloak; a cloak so lined or trimmed, a fur. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 6697 Y wol chargen al the bestis With pellis, and siglatouns honeste. c1325Lai le Freine 172 Therin she leyed the child, for cold, In the pel as it was bifold. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 246, ij doctorys with him arayd with pellys aftyr the old gyse. 1596Bp. W. Barlow Three Serm. ii. 88 Our flesh swelleth, and like Sathyrions pelles or skinnes..we are of vnquiet and restlesse minds.
†b. The skin with which the deciduous horns of deer are at first covered; the ‘velvet’. Obs.
In quot. 1575 app. associated with pill, peel n.
1575Turberv. Venerie 242 His heade when it commeth first out, hath a russet pyll vpon it, the whiche is called Veluet. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, To Fray,..when Deer rub..their Heads against Trees to get the pells of their new Horns off.
2. A skin or roll of parchment, a parchment; spec. each of the two pells, of receipt (pellis receptorum) and disbursement (pellis exituum), kept at the Exchequer.
b. In pl. The Office of the Exchequer in which these were kept. Obs. exc. Hist.
1454Rolls of Parlt. V. 249/1 That it be entred in the pele of your receipt. Ibid. 272/2 Which may appere in the peele of the Resceyt of youre Eschequer of Record. 1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 7 As in the Peall of Michelmasse Terme..playnely doth apiere. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1245/1 In which Easter tearme was William bishop of Yorke also made treasuror, as is prooued by the pell of Exitus. 1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 197 No Sanctuary to fly to, but a peice of Parchment kept in the Pells. c1802Canning Grand Consult. Poet. Wks. (1823) 40 But our frugal doctor..Gives his pills to the public, the Pells to his Son.
c. Clerk of the Pells, an officer formerly charged with the entry of receipts and disbursements on the parchment rolls in the Exchequer. So Master of the Pells. Obs. exc. Hist.
a1603in Househ. Ord. (1790) 244 Clark of the pell; fee—{pstlg}17. 10. 0. 1657Howell Londinop. 370 Touching..the Clerk of the Pell; his duty is, to enter every Tellers bill into a Roll call'd Pellis Receptorum. 1665Pepys Diary 29 Sept., Mr. Warder, Master of the Pells. 1834Act 4 & 5 Will. IV, c. 15 §1 The Offices of Auditor, and of each of the Four Tellers of the Exchequer, and of the Clerk of the Pells..are hereby abolished. 1846Blackw. Mag. LIX. 464 His party..acknowledged his services by a retiring pension, which Mr. Pitt..exchanged for the clerkship of the pells.
3. attrib. and Comb., as pell-office (sense 2); † pell-monger, a dealer in skins and furs; † pell-wool, wool plucked from the skin of a dead sheep; = pelt-wool.
1676Needham Pacquet Adv. 31 May they leave off barking when he comes into the City; and not do as dogs do at a *Pell-monger.
1697Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) IV. 311 Mr. Lemar, a clerk in the *pell office in the exchequer.
1429Rolls of Parlt. IV. 360/2 Þat no man make noon inwynde withynne þe flese,..ne þerynne to putte lokkys, *pellewolle, terre,..ne noon oþer filthe. 1442Ibid. V. 61/1 That ther be put in noon of thoo Worstedes, eny Lambe woll, nor Pell woll.
▪ II. pell, v. Obs. exc. dial.
[Origin uncertain: cf. peal v.1; also L. pellĕre to drive.]
1. intr. To hurry, rush.
c1300Havelok 809 Shal ich neuere lengere dwelle, To morwen shal ich forth pelle. 1903Eng. Dial. Dict., Pell..to dash, drive or strike violently; to walk with a heavy dashing step.
2. trans. To beat or knock violently, esp. down.
a1400–50Alexander 117 How þe powere out of Persy pellid doune his knyȝtis. 1601Holland Pliny I. 431 Beat and pell them downe with perches and poles. 1606― Sueton. 156 The buffons and jesters about him made good sport, pelling him with olive and date-stones. a1750Battle Sheriff-Muir in Child Ballads (1857) VII. 260 For well I wat I saw them run, Both south and north, when they begun, To pell and mell, and kill and fell.
▪ III. pell
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