Meaning

5 senses
  1. A fur or hide.

  2. A lined cloak or its lining.

  3. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.

  4. A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.

  5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. He put his things pell-mell in the bag.

    ruОн как попало побросал свои вещи в сумку. — marafon

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Origin

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-Europe

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

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Forms

plural: pells
Singularpell
Pluralpells

regular

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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