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Sell vs Kell - What's the difference?

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In obsolete terms the difference between sell and kell

is that sell is a seat or stool while kell is the cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.

As nouns the difference between sell and kell

is that sell is an act of selling while kell is the caul.

As a verb sell

is to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

sell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sellen, from (etyl) , Icelandic selja.

Verb

  • (intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
  • * Bible, (w) xix. 21
    • If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
  • (ergative) To be sold.
  • To promote a particular viewpoint.
  • (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
  • * (Charles Dickens)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 12, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC
    • , title= Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool , passage=Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.}}
  • (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
    • Antonyms
    * buy
    Derived terms
    * sell-by date * sell-out * sell-outs * sell-through * sell down * sell down the river * sell ice to Eskimos * sell like hotcakes * sell one's soul * sell out * sell refrigerators to Eskimos * sell wolf tickets

    Quotations

    * To trick, or cheat someone. *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of selling.
    • This is going to be a tough sell .
  • An easy task.
  • * 1922': What a '''sell for Lena! - (Katherine Mansfield), ''The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
  • (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
  • * 1919 ,
    • "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) selle, from (etyl) sella.

    Alternative forms

    * selle (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A seat or stool.
    • (Fairfax)
  • (archaic) A saddle.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
    • turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell , / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs 1000 English basic words ----

    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) ----