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chiule Hist.
[A modernization of chiula, the Latinized form, in Nennius, of OE. cíol, céol:—WGer. kiul, ON. kjóll, barge, large ship, see keel. In Gildas it appears as cyula. Used occasionally by modern historical writers.]
An Old English or Norse ship of war.
c550Gildas xxiii, Tribus, ut lingua ejus, exprimitur, cyulis, nostra lingua longis navibus. [Hence Bæda i. xv, tribus longis navibus. OE. Chron. anno 449 On þrim ceolum.] a800Nennius xxviii, Tres chiulæ. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 11 The tradition is, that they came to his aid with three chiule carrying 1600 men. 1849Lytton K. Arthur xi. xciv, Your chiules..rot within your crowded bay. 1853Phillips Rivers Yorksh. iv. 118 The Humber..Hither the Anglians, Danes, and Northmen directed their chiules. [18..Gildas §23 in Bohn 6 OE. Chron. 310 In three cyuls, as they call them.] |