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Pels vs Pell - What's the difference?

pels | pell |

As nouns the difference between pels and pell

is that pels is plural of lang=en while pell is a fur or hide.

As a verb pell is

to pelt; to knock about.

pels

English

Noun

(head)
  • Anagrams

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    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.
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