English Dictionary: Ayle | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ayle \Ayle\, n. [OE. ayel, aiel, OF. aiol, aiel, F. a[8b]eul, a dim. of L. avus grandfather.] A grandfather. [Obs.] {Writ of Ayle}, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized. |