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▪ I. pattle, pettle, n. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈpæt(ə)l, ˈpɛt(ə)l|
Also 4–5 pat(t)yl, 5 patil(l, 6 patle.
[Origin obscure; app. another form of paddle n.1, with which it partly coincides in meaning.]
1. A tool like a small spade with a long handle, used chiefly to remove the earth adhering to a plough; a plough-staff.
αc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxv. (Julian) 130 A housband a-gane oure lay Telyt his land one sownday;..Þe patyl his hand clewyt to, Þe muldebred quhen he suld mvk [rime tuk]. 1404Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 399, ij plogh pattyl. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. x. (Fox & Wolf) ii, The husband..cryit, and caist his patill and grit stanis. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xii. 72 Hirdmen sall hunt ȝow vpthrow Garranis gyll, Castand thair Patlis, and lat the pleuch stand still. 1785Burns To Mouse i, I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee Wi' murd'ring pattle. 1820Scott Monast. xi, If he liked a book ill, he liked a plough or a pattle worse.
β1786Burns Earnest Cry & Prayer xv, Or faith! I'll wad my new pleugh-pettle, Ye'll see't or lang. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. x, A hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle. 1858M. Porteous Souter Johnny 24 Pettle or plough staff, with which he cleaned the ploughshare.
†2. = padle n. Obs. (See pattle v.)
3. Comb., as pattle-shaft, -tree, the shaft or handle of a pattle.
1868D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys viii. (1871) 298 Using a pattle-tree to clear away clods. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xv. (1873) 92 Nae the vera pattle shafts but was broken.
▪ II. † ˈpattle, v. Sc. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. 2.]
trans. To scrape with a hoe (Sc. padle) or mud-scraper.
1553–4Burgh Rec. Edin. (Rec. Soc.) II. 351 Item..for ane patill to patil the kirk with. 1554–5Ibid. 296 To Thomas Hallis servand for paittelling and deichting of all the steppis of the turngryss of the tolbuith, viij d. |