chessil
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“gravel, pebble”).
Pronunciation edit
Homophone: chessel
Noun edit
chessil (uncountable)
- gravel or pebbles
- 1827, Georges Baron Cuvier, Scriptural Geology:
- It might seem probable that such masses as chessil bank, and the beds about Brighton, &c. were lodged, prior to the Deluge, upon the sea shore, and thrown into their present situation by that catastrophe
References edit
- “chessil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.