† ˈchesboll Obs.
Forms: 5 chesbowlle, chesebolle, chessebolle, 5–6 chesboll(e, 6 chesboull, cheseboule, Sc. chasbolle, 6–7 chesboule, cheesebowl(e, Sc. chesbow, 7 chessboll, cheesbowl, cheeseboul, Sc. chasbow.
[Cited in Promp. Parv. and by a number of authors as cheese-bowl, supposed to have some reference to the form of the seed-vessel. Phonetically there is no objection to this, as cheese, ME. chese, in composition has become ches- as in chesford, cheslip or cheeselip, and bolle is the ME. form of bowl; but the reason for the name is not obvious. The word is to some extent mixed with chibolle, chibol, chesbolle being given in various 15th c. Vocabularies as ‘onion’, and chebole in one as ‘poppy’.
(The conjecture that chesboll = ‘ball of pebbly seeds’, as if the first part were chesil, OE. ceosel, has no basis in fact.)]
A poppy; particularly the Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum).
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. x. 134 Chesbolles nowe beth sowe in hoote and drie. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 644 Hec papauer, chesbolle. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 73 Chesebolle, papaver. 1533 Bellenden Livy i. liv. (1822) 94 He straik of the hedis of the chesbowis..with his club. 1544 Phaër Regim. Lyfe (1560) R iij, The heades of poppie, called chesbolles. 1549 Compl. Scot. xi. 94 Quhar that he gat ony chasbollis that greu hie, he straik the heidis fra them. 1597 Gerard Herbal lxviii. 298 Poppie is called..in English Poppie, and Cheesebowles. 1611 Cotgr., Oliette, Poppie, Chessbolls, or Cheese-bowles. c 1630 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 2/2 Beneath a sleepy chesbow. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden iii. 6 Poppy for the most part, yet in some Countries it is called Red-weed; in others..Cheese-bouls. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 67/2 Pash-Poles, or Chesboule, are double Poppies. |
b. attrib.
| c 1440 MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, fol. 9 (Halliw.) A male fulle of chesebolle sede. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. ix. 28 Sleipryfe chesbow seid. Ibid. ix. vii. 150 As the chesbow hedes oft we se Bow down thare knoppis. |
¶ = chibol, an onion.
| c 1410 Swete Susane 105 (MS. Phillips c 1410) The cheruyle, þe cholet, þe chesboll, þe cheve [(Vernon MS. a 1400) Þe chyue and þe chollet, þe chibolle, þe cheue]. c 1425 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 644 Hec sepula, chesbolle. 1483 Cath. Angl. 62 A Chesse bolle [v.r. Chesbowlle], papauer, ciuolus. a 1500 Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 710 Hec sepa, a chesbolle. |