chiule Hist.
[A modernization of chiula, the Latinized form, in Nennius, of OE. c{iacu}ol, céol:—WGer. kiul, ON. kjóll, barge, large ship, see keel. In Gildas it appears as cyula. Used occasionally by modern historical writers.]
An Old English or Norse ship of war.
| c 550 Gildas xxiii, Tribus, ut lingua ejus, exprimitur, cyulis, nostra lingua longis navibus. [Hence Bæda i. xv, tribus longis navibus. OE. Chron. anno 449 On þrim ceolum.] a 800 Nennius xxviii, Tres chiulæ. 1839 Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 11 The tradition is, that they came to his aid with three chiule carrying 1600 men. 1849 Lytton K. Arthur xi. xciv, Your chiules..rot within your crowded bay. 1853 Phillips Rivers Yorksh. iv. 118 The Humber..Hither the Anglians, Danes, and Northmen directed their chiules. [18.. Gildas §23 in Bohn 6 OE. Chron. 310 In three cyuls, as they call them.] |