† chel Obs. rare.
Also 3 cheole.
[app. identical with OE. ceole wk. fem. ‘throat’, corresp. to OLG. kela (MDu. kele, Du. keel), OHG. chela, (MHG. kele, Ger. kehle):—OTeut. *kelôn-.]
Throat.
| c 1000 Ags. Psalms cxiii[i] 16 Ne cleopiᵹaþ hi, ðeah ðe hi ceolan habban. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 48 Þy-læs seo ceole sie aswollen. a 1200 Moral Ode 362 (Egerton MS.) Ne scal þer beo fou ne grei..ne martres cheole [Trinity Coll. MS. methes-chele]. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 3194 And herte him so þer on þe chel, þat he was neȝ y-slayn. |