▪ I. costrel1 Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈkɒstrəl)
Forms: 4–5 costril(le, -ell(e, 5 costrele, -ylle, costerell, (6 kostorell, 7 castrel), 9 costril, 4–9 costrel.
[a. OF. costerel, synonymous with costeret: cf. med.L. costārium, costerium, ‘poculum vinarium’, and, in same sense, costrellus (Du Cange).
OF. costerel, -et, are generally taken as dims. of coste basket, panier; but they have the form of dims. of costier ‘that is by the side’, L. type *costārius. Cf. the med.L. equivalent collateralis, also OF. costereau (= costerel) a dweller side by side, a neighbour.]
A vessel for holding or carrying wine or other liquid; a large bottle with an ear or ears by which it could be suspended from the waist (whence the antiquarian designation ‘pilgrim's bottle’), or a small wooden keg similarly used, in which sense it is still in dialect use.
| [a 1400 MS. in Promp. Parv. 95 Uter, anglice a botel, sed collateralis, anglice a costrelle. De cute dicis utres, de ligno collaterales.] |
| c 1380 Sir Ferumbr. 510 Ac by myddel þer hongeþ her a costrel..ful of þat bame cler þat precious ys & fre. 1382 Wyclif Ruth ii. 9 If also thou thrustist, go to the litil costrils [v.r. costretis] and drynke watris. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 2666 Hyperm., And therwithalle a costrel [so 3 MSS.; 3 costret] taketh he And seyde, ‘Hereof a draught, or two, or three’. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas vii. viii. (1554) 172 b. c 1440 Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxix, The costrell that is olde whan it receyueth new wyne..bolneth oute and is in poynte for to cleue & brest. c 1450 Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 724/9 Hic colateralis, a costrille. 1454 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) I. 173 A costerell for ale. 1572 Inv. G. Cope in Midl. Co. Hist. Coll. II. 331 Two kostorells of foure gallons a piece for drinke. 1709 Hearne Collect. 5 Oct., In the north they say a costrel of Tarr for a barrell of Tarr. 1824–8 Carr Craven Dial., Costril, a small barrel. It was formerly used here instead of a bottle, by labourers who took milk and beer in it. 1859 Tennyson Geraint & Enid 386 A youth, that following with a costrel bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. 1874 Archæol. Jrnl. Dec. 431 Mrs. Baily sent for exhibition two costrels, or pilgrims' bottles. |
▪ II. costrel2 Obs. exc. dial.
In 7 -ill.
[Cf. costard 2.]
The head.
| 1604 Meeting of Gallants 12 Vnless some Country Fore⁓horse came by..with a Raine-beaten Feather in his costrill. 1640 R. Brathwait Bolster Lect. 92 A wife..that no image was (for shee could speake) And now and then her husbands costrell breake. 1891 In Sheffield dial. Costrel = the head (S.O. Addy). |
▪ III. costrel, -ing
var. custrel, -ing, Obs.