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▪ I. ˈbensel, n. Sc. and north. dial.
Also bensell, -sall, -sail, -sil, bent-sail.
[a. ON. benzla (or benzl Vigf.) bending, bent, tension, f. benda to bend (a bow). The spelling bent-sail is merely conjectural. With quot. 1659 cf. Icel. taka boga af benzlum to take a bow out of bensel.]
Bending, tension, spring (of mental faculties); strong bent or determination; impetus (of a body in motion).
1513Douglas æneis viii. xii. 37 Ourweltit wyth the bensell of the ayris [= oars]. 1659Durham Scandal 79 (Jam.) Men weary..for our spirits are soon out of bensall. a1662R. Baillie Lett. (1775) II. 306 (Jam.), I found the bent-sail of the spirits of some so much on the engagement. 1734A. Welwood Glimpse Glory ix. 192 Surely, if you be partakers of his [God's] nature, you cannot but bend to him with a strong Bensil. 1807Stagg Poems (Cumberl. dial.) 61 A hangrell gang Com with a bensil owr the sea.
▪ II. ˈbensel, v. dial.
Also bansel.
[prob. f. prec., in sense of ‘impetus.’]
trans. To drive, knock (about); to bang, beat.
1674Ray N.C. Wds. 6 Bensel, to bang or beat. 1824Craven Dial. i. 8 Warmed her jerkin wi' a sound switching, an bensill'd her purely. Northampton & Staffordsh. dial., The child never rests: it is always being banselled about for something. |