skilla

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noun

A bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.

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nounskilla (plural skillas)

plural skillas

  1. historicalA bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.

    […] during that year he was promoted to sit by the skilla in the Refectory, and Abbot Colchester must at once have sent him to Rome, for he was there as a proctor for three years up to Sep. 1390, thus excusing the Abbot his triennial visit "ad limina" […]

    1916, Ernest Harold Pearce, The Monks of Westminster: Being a Register of the Brethren of the Convent from the Time of the Confessor to the Dissolution, with Lists of the Obedientiaries and an Introduction, Cambridge University Press, page 18

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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