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cyul, cyule
Modern literary adaptations of cyula, latinized form in Gildas and Nennius of OE. céol, ciol:—ciul, keel, boat, sailing vessel.
[c525Gildas De Excidio Brit. xxiii, Tribus, ut lingua ejus [gentis] exprimitur cyulis, nostra lingua longis navibus. c620Nennius Eulog. Brit. xxviii, Tres chiulæ..in quibus erant Hors et Hengist. Cf. OE. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 449 Hi þa coman on þrim ceolum hider to Brytene. ]1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 128 (D.) Embarqu'd in forty cyules or pinnaces, and sailing about the Picts' coasts. Ibid. ii. 66 (D.) In every ciule thirtie wives. 1876Skene Celtic Scot. I. i. iii. 146 Three cyuls came from Germany. |