Middle English Dictionary Entry
codel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | codel n. Also codul, cotil, cutil, cothel. |
| Etymology | OE cudele (corresp. to G dial. kudele); akin to OE cod(d. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Cuttlefish; (b) the calcareous shell of the cuttlefish [used in powdered form as an abrasive and medicinally as an antacid].
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)59b/b : Sepia, maner of fyshe: a codel.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)85 : Codulle [vr. cotul], fysche: Sepia.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)611 : Sicca, quidam piscis: a codel.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)42b/a : Maister Dynus makeþ a puluer of a sponge combuste osse sepie i. cutyl bone.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)188a/b : Os sepie, cotilbone, is knowen colde & drye with clensynge.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)204/651 : Take a cotill bone which goldsmythes vsys.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)61/25 : Take cothellbonys, swyche as gold-smethys vsyn.