Kell

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KELL, sb.1 and v. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Yks. Chs. Not. Lin.
Lei. Nhp. War. Wor. Shr. Bdf. Hnt. e.An. Also in form
keld n.Yks.1 n.Yks.4 [kel.] 1. sb. The caul, the membrane
enveloping the foetus in the womb, and occasionally found
adhering at birth.
Sc. (A.W.) n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 Worn about the person as a protection
from drowning; and for those who are going to sea, as much as £5
may be instanced as offered for one (s.v. Caul); n.Yks.4, w.Yks.1,
s.Not. (J.P.K.) n.Lin. I can't think why foäls is soä of'ens
smoor'd i' th' kell (M.P.); n.Lin.1 Oor ohd mare, she foäl'd e' th'
neet, an' th' foal could n't braak th' kell, so it was droonded.
Nhp.1, w.Wor.1, s.Wor. (H.K.)
2. The omentum, the ‘caul’ which covers the bowels of
an animal.
Nhb. (R.O.H.), n.Yks. (I.W.) e.Yks. Fower pounde of suitte
that was in the kell of each of them, Best Rur. Econ. (1642) 96;
e.Yks.1, w.Yks.2, s.Chs.1, Not. (J.H.B.) n.Lin. Internal parts of a
pig or other animal, Sutton Wds. (1881); n.Lin.1, sw.Lin.1, Lei.1,
Nhp.1 Nhp.2, War.2 War.3, s.Wor.1, Shr.1 Shr.2, Hnt. (T.P.F.), e.An.1 Nrf. The
kell, that's the thing, and the nut of that is the sweetest part of
all, Emerson Lagoons (ed. 1896) 76. e.Suf. (F.H.)
3. A film or scale on the eye; a cataract.
Lei.1 The surgeon ‘cuts the kell’ in an operation for cataract.
Nhp.1 My eyes feel as if they had a kell over them. War.2 Shr.1
'Er's got a kell o' won oi, an 'er's dark o' the tother. Bdf. A
mother asks a surgeon whether there be not a kell over the child's
eye (J.W.B.). Hnt. (T.P.F.)
4. The incrustation or grime of dirt.
Sc. (Jam.) Cld. The grime that collects on the face and hands
of a workman, the coating of soot on a pot (JAM.). Ant. (W.H.P.)
5. The débris of the skin, scurf, dandriff.
Ayr. She was soon scrapit of all the scurf and kell of her
abominations, Galt Gilhaize (1823) ix. N.I.1
6. A cap of net-work for women's hair.
Sc. Then up and gat her seven sisters, And sewed to her a kell,
Gay Goshawk in Child Ballads (1886) II. 364.
7. The hinder part of a woman's cap.
Sc. The kell of a mutch (Jam.); Francisque-Michel Lang.
(1882) 86.
8. A squirrel's nest. w.Yks.1 A squirrel kell.
9. v. Of the eye of a horse: to gather a film.
Shr.2 His eye begins to kell over.
[1. A silly jealous fellow... seeing his child new born
included in a kell, thought sure a Franciscan... was the
father of it, it was so like a friar's cowl, Burton Anat.
Mel. (1621), ed. 1836, 645. 3. His wakeful eyes... Now
cover'd over with dim cloudy kels, Drayton Owle (1604)
1310 (Nares). 6. The hair was of this damysell knyt
wyth a buttoune in a goldin kell, Douglas Eneados (1513),
ed. 1874, III. 141; A kelle, reticulum, Cath. Angl. (1483).]

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KELL, sb.2 Der.2 nw.Der.1 [kel.] A confused noise.

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KELL, see Keld, sb., Kiln, sb.1

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KELL, v. n.Der. To call loudly. (S.B.) i.q. Kell, sb.2

Source : A DICTIONARY OF THE KENTISH DIALECT AND PROVINCIALISMS IN USE IN THE COUNTY OF KENT. BY W. D. PARISH, CHANCELLOR OF CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL AND VICAR OF SELMESTON; AND W. F. SHAW, VICAR OF EASTRY, KENT.