Yell

YELL, sb.1 Lan.1 s.Lan.1 Also written yel Lan.1 [jel.] A dial. form of ‘awl.’

YELL, sb.2 Lth. (Jam.) [jel.] An echo.

YELL, sb.3 Stf. [jel.] A three-pronged fork. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863). See Evil, sb.2; cf. yelve.

YELL, sb.4 Dev. Cor. [jel.] In comp. (1) Yell-hound, (2) Yell-hunter, spectral apparitions; see below. (1) Dev.1 (s.v. Yeth-hounds). Cor. The Abbot's Way on Dartmoor, ... the favourite coursing ground of ‘the wish or wisked hounds of Dartmoor,’ called also the ‘yell-hounds,’ and the ‘yeth-hounds,’ Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Eng. (1865) 145. (2) Dev. Every unbaptized infant that dies is supposed to become the prey of the ‘Yeth or Yell Hunter,’ Whitcombe Bygone Days (1874) 6.

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