chisley
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See also: Chisley
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English ceosel (“gravel or sand”). Compare chessom.
Adjective[edit]
chisley (comparative more chisley, superlative most chisley)
- (dated, of soil) Having a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.
- 1792, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- No. II. was a coarse unkind piece of land, of a soil neither clayey nor gravelly, but something between both, and which my men called chisley.
References[edit]
- “chisley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.