† couˈtel Obs.
Also 3–7 cotel.
[a. OF. cotel, coutel, earlier coltel:—L. cultellum knife.]
‘A short knife or dagger in use during the Middle Ages’ (Fairholt); a knife. Cf. cuttle, n.
| [1292 Britton ii. xxii. §4 Cotels, haches, et bastouns.] 1647 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxxi. (1739) 194 That Statute that forbids the use of a pointed Sword, or pointed Cotel..at that sport. 1654 H. L'Estrange Chas. I, p. 90 Leaving the knife, a ten penny coutel, in his body. 1834 J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 112 The coutel..a military knife..added to the offensive weapons [in Edward I's time]. |