skilla

English

Noun

skilla (plural skillas)

1. (historical) A bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.
   • 1916, Ernest Harold Pearce, The Monks of Westminster: Being a Register of the Brethren of the Convent from the Time of the Confessor to the Dissolution, with Lists of the Obedientiaries and an Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, page 18:

     […] during that year he was promoted to sit by the skilla in the Refectory, and Abbot Colchester must at once have sent him to Rome, for he was there as a proctor for three years up to Sep. 1390, thus excusing the Abbot his triennial visit "ad limina" […]

Anagrams

• Kalils, akills, killas

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• skillene

Noun

skilla n

1. definite plural of skille