chessel
Also 8 cheswell, chessil.
[app. f. cheese + well.]
A cheese-vat.
| 1721 Kelly Sc. Prov. 141 (Jam.) He is gone out of the cheswell that he was made in [i.e. the position in which he was born]. 1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 157 The curds are put into the chessel or cheese-mould, which is placed under the press. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. I. 209 The press (constructed so as to hold four chessils)..A fine round cloth, the size of the chessil bottom. |