Meanings
nouncablish (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableWind-blown fallen wood.
In the Middle Ages there were regular arrangements for the disposal of cablish, wind-fallen wood, not only after exceptional storms like that in 1362.
2010, Oliver Rackham, chapter 8, in Woodlands (New Naturalist), London: Collins, page 165
Origin
Probably from Anglo-Norman *cablis
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