Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pell"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pell \Pell\, v. t. [Cf. {Pelt}, v. t.]
To pelt; to knock about. [Obs.] --Holland.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pell \Pell\, n. [OF. pel, F. peau, L. pellis a skin. See {Fell}
a skin.]
1. A skin or hide; a pelt.
2. A roll of parchment; a parchment record.
{Clerk of the pells}, formerly, an officer of the exchequer
who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called
pell rolls. [Eng.]
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