▪ I. † cawl Obs. exc. dial.
(kɔːl)
In 1 cawel, (couel, ceawl), 6–9 cawell, (9 cowel(l, -all), 1–9 cawl.
[OE. cawl, ceawl, basket.]
A basket; in modern Cornish dialect, a fish-basket or creel.
| a 700 Epinal Gloss. 305 Corvis (corbis), couel. a 800 Corpus Gloss. 513 Corbus (-is), cauuel. c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. viii. §4 Þæt folc..heora cawlas afylled hæfdon. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 20 Tuoelf ceawlas ðæra screadunga fullo [Mark vi. 43 ceaulas]. c 1050 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 365 Coruis, cawel. 1568 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 285 One almerye and a cawell w{supt}{suph} a cownter [Here the meaning is doubtful]. 1865 Esquiros Cornwall 136 Women, with bent backs, loaded with a dorser called a cowel..bear the enormous loads of fish from the boats to the beach. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornw. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Cowall, Cawell, a basket to hold fish, carried by the fish-wives. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 293 A Lamprey Cawl. A Lamprey Basket. |
▪ II. cawl(e
obs. form of caul n.1 and n.2, cawel.