jan 1, 1642 - chisel

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A variant spelling of chesil meaning gravel. It came to be used of coarse flour, or bran which has a gritty character. 1589 <i>dyvers bakers of this cittie ... have of laite used to sell course meale to the poore ... and ... have mingled and maid up the same with bran chesell and such like stuffe</i>, York (YRS138/80); 1642 <i>in every bushell of meale that commeth from the mill there is very neare a pecke of chizell dressed out, which hereabouts is called treate, in the South-Country, branne</i>, Elmswell (DW110).

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