'Pell' definitions:
Definition of 'Pell'
From: GCIDE
- Pell \Pell\ (p[e^]l), v. t. [Cf. Pelt, v. t.] To pelt; to knock about. [Obs.] --Holland. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pell'
From: GCIDE
- Pell \Pell\, n. [OF. pel, F. peau, L. pellis a skin. See Fell a skin.]
- 1. A skin or hide; a pelt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A roll of parchment; a parchment record. [1913 Webster]
- Clerk of the pells, formerly, an officer of the exchequer who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called pell rolls. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]