Middle English Dictionary Entry
verbel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | verbel n. |
| Etymology | Prob. from OF vervel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. vertible n., vertwel n. (a).
1.
Hawk. A metal ring on a hawk’s jess, to which the leash is attached.
Associated quotations
- ?a1450 Poem Hawking (Yale 163)605 : Verbell than longeth to these maner haukys, Rounde rynges, thei ar tyed by her gesse, In the whiche ar wrete cominly þe lord name of þe hauke.