† shaft-eel Obs.
[? shaft n.2, referring to the shape.]
A kind of eel. Cf. shafflin.
| 1411 Cal. Let. Bks. Hen. IV, I. 102 [printed shastele]. 15.. in Dugdale Monasticon (1655) I. 81/2 Schafte eles to bake for the covent on shere thursday. 1545 Rates Custom Ho. b j b, Elis called shaft kyue or dele elis. 1583 Ibid. B vij b, Shaft, kine or dole Eeles. [So in later schedules.] |