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Kell vs Pell - What's the difference?

kell | pell |

As nouns the difference between kell and pell

is that kell is (obsolete) the caul or kell can be a kiln or kell can be a sort of pottage; kale while pell is pill, tablet or pell can be pullet, young hen.

kell

English

Etymology 1

Compare caul.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) The caul.
  • (obsolete, figurative) That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • I'll have him cut to the kell .
  • (obsolete) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
  • (Ben Jonson)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kiln.
  • Etymology 3

    A modification of kale.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A sort of pottage; kale.
  • (Ainsworth)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    pell

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fur or hide.
  • A lined cloak or its lining.
  • A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
  • * 1835 , Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty?s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370 , page xi,
  • The clerk of the pell' (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer?s gift) keepeth the '''Pells in parchment, called ''Pelles Receptæ'', wherein every teller?s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, ''recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.
    He also anciently kept another pell , called Pellis Exitus , wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.
  • (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
  • An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
  • Derived terms

    * clerk of the pells

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pelt; to knock about.
  • (Holland)
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