▪ I. ‖ pel Obs.
[Anglo-Fr., = OF. pel, mod.F. pieu:—L. pālus stake: see peel n.1]
A stake at which swordsmanship was practised in the 14th century.
| 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. i. §3 (paraphrasing AF. MS. of 14th c.) The author..strongly recommends a constant and attentive attack of the pel..for so he calls the post-quintain... The practitioner was then to assail the pel, armed with sword and shield, in the same manner as he would an adversary. |
▪ II. pel
obs. form of pall, peel n.1, pell n.1