One of a pair of timbers rising from ground level and curving to meet at the top to form a roof ridge, acting as the framework of the roofs and walls of a building, a cruck; couple (paire) de siles……
(a) The common seal Phoca vitulina, a marine carnivorous mammal; -- sometimes confused with other marine mammals such as the whale [last quot.] and perh. the porpoise [quot.: 1440]; also, the seal……
(a)A plow; -- used fig.; also, glossing L tribulum: ?a shovel; sul silver, a payment prob. in commutation of the service of giving plowshares to the lord of the manor; sul staf, a stick or staff prob……
