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Tussle vs Pall - What's the difference?

tussle | pall |

As a noun tussle

is a physical fight or struggle.

As a verb tussle

is to have a tussle.

As a proper noun pall is

, cognate to paul.

tussle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A physical fight or struggle.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And the visiting side appeared to settle quickly as Wayne Routledge, who had a tough tussle with Stevenage left-back Scott Laird, delivered an early cross that Barton drilled goalwards, forcing a decent save from Chris Day.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , author=(Walter Dean Myers) , title=The Glory Field , chapter= , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=_ePdzF_m3V4C&q=%22tussle%22 citation , isbn=978054505575 , page=32 , passage=..., two young men—field hands—got into a tussle with a white man.}}

    Verb

    (tussl)
  • To have a tussle.
    • The two sets of fans were tussling before the game.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Olsson and Herd tussled off the ball at a free-kick before Olsson fell to the ground. Assistant referee Darren Cann signalled for a penalty and Dowd sent Herd off to the amazement of the Villa faithful.}}

    pall

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
  • (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
  • (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice.
  • (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
  • * Fuller
    • About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, — the one for London, the other for York.
  • (heraldiccharge) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  • A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , Canongate (2006), page 150:
    • Thirty years or so later, a woman was put to death for stealing the purple pall from his sarcophagus, a strange, crazy crime,
  • An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
  • (obsolete) nausea
    • (Shaftesbury)
  • (senseid) A feeling of gloom.
    • A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
    The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
    Derived terms
    * cast a pall * pallbearer * tarpaulin
    Synonyms
    * (heraldry) pairle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cloak.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Lady Macbeth: 'Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell' (Macbeth Act I Scene v lines 48–9).

    Etymology 2

    from appall. Possibly influenced by the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
  • * Atterbury
    • Reason and reflection pall all his enjoyments.
  • To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
    • The liquor palls .
  • * Addison
    • Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, / Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
    • We are all becoming accustomed to adventure. It is beginning to pall on us. We suffered no casualties and there was no illness.
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