chisley

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adjective

Having a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.

OriginOld English ceosel →
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Meanings

chisley1

adjectivechisley (comparative more chisley, superlative most chisley)

comparative more chisley · superlative most chisley

  1. datedHaving a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.

    No. II. was a coarse unkind piece of land, of a soil neither clayey nor gravelly, but something between both, and which my men called chisley.

    1792, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Chisley2

proper nounChisley (plural Chisleys)

plural Chisleys

  1. A surname.

Origin

chisley · adjective

  1. Old Englishceosel“gravel or sand”
  2. Englishchisley

From Old English ceosel (“gravel or sand”). Compare chessom.

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Chisley · proper noun

  1. GermanSchüssler
  2. EnglishChisley

Americanized form of German Schüssler or a variant of Chesley.

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Cite this entry
APA

chisley. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chisley

MLA

“chisley.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chisley. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chisley,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chisley.

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