† chiˈlindre Obs.
Also 5 chylendere, chilinder, chylander, -laundre, -lawndur, 6 chilandre.
[ad. med.L. chilindr-us (in same sense) for L. cylindrus, a. Gr. κύλινδρος cylinder n.: cf. lt. cilindro ‘a kinde of diall’ (Florio).]
A kind of portable sun-dial of cylindrical form used in early times.
[See 13–14th c. treatise De composicione chilindri, and Hoveden's Practica chilindri (Chaucer Soc. pt. 1, 2).]
| c 1386 Chaucer Shipman's T. 204 And lat us dyne as soone as þat ye may ffor by my chilyndre [v.r. chylendere, chilinder] it is pryme of day. c 1430 Lydg. Siege Thebes (Arundel MS. 119 lf. 18) By my chilyndre I gan anon to se, Thorgh þe sonne þat ful cler gan shyne, Of þe clok that it drogh to nyne. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 74 Chylander or chylawndur. c 1450 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 572 Chilindrus, a leuel vel est instrumentum quo hore notantur [a chylaundre]. 1530 Palsg. 205/1 Chilandre, chilandre. |