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ayle

ayle is the alternative form of ayel.

Meaning of ayel

Noun

ayel (countable and uncountable, plural ayels)

  1. (obsolete) A grandfather.
    • The Writ of Ayle was an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.
  2. (obsolete) A legal writ under which a grandchild can legally remove a stranger from land belonging to the grandchild's grandfather, which the stranger had seized upon the grandfather's death.

Questions about ayle

What is ayle the alternative form of?
Ayle is the alternative form of ayel.

Words near ayle in the dictionary

  1. aying
  2. ayins
  3. AYKM
  4. Aykol
  5. Aylard
  6. ayle
  7. Ayleen
  8. Aylesbeare
  9. Aylesbury
  10. Aylesbury Vale
  11. Aylesford

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ayle (page history and authors); ayel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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