Meanings
alternative chesil
- uncountablegravel or pebbles
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
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Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*kesul“gravel, pebble”
- Old Englishċeosel
- Middle Englishchisel
- Englishchessil
From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“gravel, pebble”).
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chessil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chessil
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