gellv.
/ɡɛl/, U.S. /ɡɛl/, Scottish English /ɡɛl/ Scottish and northern dialect.
intransitive. ‘To tingle, thrill with intense pain’ (Jamieson); also, to ache or tingle with cold.
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1669 Hist. Sir Eger 12 Your wounds they will both glow and gell.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 90/1 Geal, to be benumbed with cold.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 49 The growlan fish-wives hoise their creels, Set a' their banes a gelling.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Geall, to ache with cold.
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