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▪ I. † patel1, -ell(e Obs.
Also 5 -yl, 6 pattle.
[ad. L. patella pan, knee-pan, F. patelle knee-pan.]
1. A pan, a frying-pan.
b. The paten or shallow dish used with the chalice in the Eucharist.
1481Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 97, ij friyng patyls ferr. 1546Confut. N. Shaxton F viij b, Three crosses..one wyth your thombe in your forheade, an other vpon your crowne wyth the patell of the chalice.
2. The patella or knee-pan; also patel-bone.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 35 This Patell was ordained to couer the ioynt betwene the thighe and legge. 1598Florio, Rotola del ginocchio, the whirle bone ordained to cover the ioint of the knee, the eie-bone,..the pattle-bone.
▪ II. ‖ patel2 East Ind.|ˈpʌtəl|
Also 9 patell, -eil, -ail, pattel, potail.
[a. Marāthī patil, Hindūstānī patel, app. f. Marāthī pat ‘roll or register’ (Yule).]
The head-man of a village in India: the title used in the Central and Western Provinces, and frequently in S. India, but not in the Gangetic Provinces.
1802Chron. App. in Ann. Reg. 526/2 The potail or killedar of Tirnakull has been hanged. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master vii. 12 All his attempts could not compel The village rascally patel To get him a few fowls and rice. 1885G. S. Forbes Wild Life in Canara 16 Village constables under the potails, or heads of villages. 1894Daily News 4 Sept. 5/2 The patel decoyed him out of his house at night, and hacked him to pieces with a hatchet. |