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▪ I. † beele1 Obs.
[Prob. a variant of *bill (not actually found in this sense, but cf. billet) a. F. bille ‘a young stocke of a tree to graft on’ (Cotgr.); cf. 12th c. med.L. billa, billus ‘branch, trunk of a tree.’]
? The crossbar of the yoke.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 650 The young plants are good to make beeles for Yoakes.
▪ II. † beele2 Obs. or dial.
[app. a variant form of bill. But cf. MHG. bîl, bîhel, mod.Ger. beil axe.]
A pick-axe with both ends sharp, used to pick out the ore from the rocks.
1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2104 The Instruments commonly used in Mines..are; (1.) A Beele or Cornish Tubber of 8l. or 10l. weight, sharped at both ends. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Beele, an instrument used by the workmen to break and pick out the ore from the rocks in which it lies. [Not in modern Cornish Gloss. of E.D. Soc.; but W. Corn. Gl. has ‘Beal a bird's bill.’] Hence beele-man.
1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2104 The Beele-men rip the Deads and Ore. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Beele, The miners, who dig up the ore in the mines, are, from the use of this instrument called beele-men..In Cornwall..they allow two shovellers to three beele-men.
▪ III. beele
obs. or dial. f. bill ‘a beak.’ |