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chessil en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈt͡ʃɛsəl/
• /ˈt͡ʃɛzəl/

Etymology

From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“gravel, pebble”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) gravel or pebbles
   • 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 1827, Georges Baron Cuvier, Scriptural Geology:

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