chessil

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Etymology

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From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (gravel, sand), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (gravel, pebble).

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chessil (uncountable)

  1. gravel or pebbles
    • 1827, Georges Baron Cuvier, Scriptural Geology:
      It might seem probable that such masses as chessil bank, and the beds about Brighton, &c. were lodged, prior to the Deluge, upon the sea shore, and thrown into their present situation by that catastrophe

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