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pightle local.|ˈpaɪt(ə)l|
Forms: α. 3 pichtel, pichtil, pictel, pigtel, 5 pyghtell, 5–6 pytell, 6–7 pightell, putell, 6–9 pightel, pitle, 8 pightal, 7– pightle, (8–9 corruptly pigtail). Also β. 3 pichel, pychel, pichil, pughull, 6–8 pighill, 7–8 peighill; 6 pykkyll, 7 pickhill, pickell, 7–8 pickle. γ. 7–9 picle. δ. 7–8 piddle. See also pingle n.2
[Origin obscure; the form seems to be diminutive.
The two types pightel and pighel (pichel) are both found soon after 1200; the former was midl. and southern; in E. Anglia and Essex it became before 1500 pitel; pichel was northern, and appears to have given the hardened form pickel; picle was app. a phonetic variant of pitle, whence perh. also piddle through *pittle. Cf. also pingle n.2]
A small field or enclosure; a close or croft.
α1210Fines in Cur. Dom. Reg., Bucks (1835) I. 247 Croftam..que vocatur Leuernues pigtel. 12..Deed in N. & Q. 10th ser. V. 26/2 Totam croftam illam que vocatur Wlstones pictel que jacet sub Bosco. 1250–60Furness Coucher (Chetham Soc., new ser. XI. 444), Totam terram..in loco qui vocatur Pichtil cum una acra ad caput Pichil. 1403Court-roll Gt. Waltham Manor, Essex, Idem dominus habet unum fossatum non scuratum erga Chalf-pyghtell. 1494in T. Gardner Hist. Dunwich (1754) 52 My Pytell lyinge in the Parische of All Seints within the said Town. 1541in Wigram Elstow (1885) 161 One messuage, and one pightell, with appurtenances. 1562in Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bp. Stortford (1882) 55 Wood of ye pytell called thorley wyk. 1650Brasenose Coll. Doc. E2 19 A little close or pasture called Pightle about 1 rood in area. 1730in Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities (1837) XXXI. 141 (Cambs.) Two pightals in Bottisham, and a dolver in Braddyls. 1819Rees Cycl., Pig-Tail,..a provincial term sometimes applied to a small strip of ground generally in the state of grass. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 53 Never had that novelty in manure whitened the crofts and pightles of Court-Farm. a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. (1851) IV. 430 The pigtail of the field, a small strip in grass. 1854Knight Once upon a Time II. 117 There was one meadow..called the Pitle (still a Norfolk word). 1893J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Recollect. (1894) I. i. 15 The paddocks and pightels about the town of my birth.
βc1220Selby Chartul. II. 15 Unum essartum..quod vocatur Pichel. 1254–80Ibid. 81 Cum uno pychel prati in Ower Seleby. c1275Whalley Coucher (Chetham Soc., Old Ser. XVI. 688), Partem cujusdam terræ..quod vocatur Mikel pughull et Litel pughull. 1503Will of Wyne (Somerset Ho.), Pykkyll otherwise called crofte. 1651MS. Indenture (co. Derby), One land called the Pickell land. 1688MS. Indenture, Close called..the Peighill. 1699MS. Indenture, Also the Pickhills [elsewhere Pickills] in Brampton [co. York]. 1711in Rep. Comm. Inq. Charities (1822) VIII. 721 (Yorks.) [J. S. charged] a pighill next but three to his close [with 5s. yearly to the poor]. 1737Court Roll, Wakefield, Close called..Peighill. 1737MS. Indenture (Rolleston, co. Stafford), A piece of meadow..lying near to an inclosure called Pickle Meer.
γ1641Termes de la Ley 219 Picle or pitle..signifies with us a little small close or inclosure. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Pitle, Picle, a small piece of inclosed ground, generally pronounced in the first, but not unfrequently in the second form.
δ1638Brasenose Coll. Mun., Covt. Burwaldescote, A piddle of pasture grownde of half an acre. a1693Ashmole Antiq. Berks. (1723) I. Introd. 39 Two Houses, and a Piddle of Land belonging to them. |