† orbelln.
Obsolete. rare.
A circular surface or plot.
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bedc1000
sollarc1440
garden stead1546
garden plot1548
quarter1565
square1615
orbell1635
area1658
earth-bed1757
1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse ii. 148 In the lowest part of the garden I might see a curious orbell all of touch wherein the Syracusan tyrants were..artfully portrayed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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- yeoman for the hall
- yeoman for the household
- yeoman for the mouth
- yeoman for the sething place
- yeoman furner
- yeoman garneter
- yeoman gentleman
- yeoman gunner
- yeoman herbergeour
- yeoman herd
- yeoman man
- yeoman messenger
- yeoman of signals
- yeoman of the armoury
- yeoman of the beds
- yeoman of the bottles
- yeoman of the buttery
- yeoman of the cellar
- yeoman of the chamber
- yeoman of the channel
- yeoman of the close cart
- yeoman of the collar
- yeoman of the cord