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† Theal, thele. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. † Theal, thele Obs. Forms: (1 þelu, þel, þell), 6 thele, thel, theall, 7 (9 dial.) theal. [In 16th c. thele, corresp. to OE. -þelu fem. occurring in comb. bencþelu (also neuter pl.) ‘bench-floor,’ and buruhþeiu ‘castle-floor,’ agreeing in sense with þel, þell, neut., board, plank, floor, in one place ‘(iron) plate.’ These point to OTeut. forms *þelâ fem., *þelom neuter, whence also *þeljon, þiljōn, WGer. *þilljō, OE. þille, ON. þilja fem. deal, plank, OHG. dilla board, MLG. dele, Du. deel deal, plank: cf. also the Finnish borrowed word teljo. The long gap between the latest OE. example of -þelu and the Eng. thele, after 1500, is noteworthy; perh. the word came down within a limited district. Cf. the place-name Þelwæl (O. E. Chron., an. 923), Thelwall in Cheshire.]

1   1.  (OE.) A floor.

2 Beowulf, 487. Eal benc-þelu blode bestymed. [Cf. Ibid., 1239 Benc-belu beredon: hit ʓeond-bræded wearð beddum ond bolstrum.]

3 a. 1000.  Fight at Finnesburg, 30. Buruhðelu dynede.

4   2.  A board, plank, deal. Cf. DEAL sb.3

5 1517.  in Market Harborough Rec. (1890), 220. I wyll yt Richard Page … shall have a lede, a mawnger, a rake and thelys, beynge at ye sygne of Swanne in Harborow.

6 1521.  Nottingham Rec., III. 355. Item anoyer pres borde and a thele yat ley at the kychyn dore.

7 1562.  Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden), 110. For thele to mende the churche dore.

8 1586.  Churchw. Acc. St. Martin, Leicester, in N. & Q., 6th Ser. VII. 249/2. Too plancke and too thels [for the library].

9 1618.  in Archæologia, XLIV. 402. Item 4 greate theales of 30 foot a piece 3 foot 3 inches broad and three inches thicke.

10 1624.  Althorp MS., in Simpkinson, Washingtons, App. p. lvii. Aug. 7. To Butlin 3 daies sawing theales, & 2 daies making a dore for Mris Segrave’s house 00 05 00.

11 1847–78.  Halliwell, Theal, a board; a plank; a joist. Leic.

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