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▪ I. † cawl Obs. exc. dial.|kɔːl| In 1 cawel, (couel, ceawl), 6–9 cawell, (9 cowel(l, -all), 1–9 cawl. [OE. cawl, ceawl, basket.] A basket; in modern Cornish dialect, a fish-basket or creel.
a700Epinal Gloss. 305 Corvis (corbis), couel. a800Corpus Gloss. 513 Corbus (-is), cauuel. c893K. ælfred Oros. iv. viii. §4 Þæt folc..heora cawlas afylled hæfdon. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 20 Tuoelf ceawlas ðæra screadunga fullo [Mark vi. 43 ceaulas]. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 365 Coruis, cawel. 1568Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 285 One almerye and a cawell wth a cownter [Here the meaning is doubtful]. 1865Esquiros Cornwall 136 Women, with bent backs, loaded with a dorser called a cowel..bear the enormous loads of fish from the boats to the beach. 1880M. A. Courtney W. Cornw. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Cowall, Cawell, a basket to hold fish, carried by the fish-wives. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 293 A Lamprey Cawl. A Lamprey Basket. ▪ II. cawl(e obs. form of caul n.1 and n.2, cawel. |