PELL

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To pelt; to knock about. [Obs.] Holland.

2.
n.

A skin or hide; a pelt.

3.
n.

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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