† cule Obs.
Also 3 cul, 4 cuyl.
[a. F. cul bottom, fundament of the body, anus:—L. cūlus.]
The rump; a buttock.
| c 1220 Bestiary 741 in O.E. Misc. 23 Of ðo ðe he wile he nimeð ðe cul And fet him wel. c 1325 Coer de L. 1822 ‘Away dogs with your taile!..Men schal threste in your cuyl!’ 1480 Caxton Ovid's Met. xiv. iii, The cule or buttoks. 1528 Roy Rede me (Arb.) 56 Then foloweth my lorde on his mule Trapped with golde vnder her cule. 1543 in Bp. Hutchinson Witchcraft (1718) 31 She told her Neighbours it would make the Cule of the Maid divide into Two Parts. 1825 Jamieson, Cules, s.pl. Buttocks (Lat. nates). |