Noun: chessil
Sample Sentences
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It might seem probable that such masses as chessil bank, and the beds about Brighton, &c. were lodged, prior to the Deluge, upon the sea shore, and thrown into their present situation by that catastrophe [1827, Georges Baron Cuvier, Scriptural Geology:]
Nouns inflected like chessil
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“gravel, pebble”). See: Middle English Nouns '
chisel', Old English Nouns '
ċeosel'.