Pell vs Gell - What's the difference?
pell | gell |
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 ,
(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.
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* 1906 , , Chapter 4: "The engine-burglar":
(a leech)
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As nouns the difference between pell and gell
is that pell is a fur or hide while gell is eye dialect of lang=en.As a verb pell
is to pelt; to knock about.pell
English
Noun
(en noun)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.
Derived terms
* clerk of the pellsgell
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You're a naughty little gell , that's what you are," said the fireman, and the engine-driver said:--
- "Daring little piece, I call her," but they made her sit down on an iron seat in the cab and told her to stop crying and tell them what she meant by it.