cheslip

Noun

cheslip (plural cheslips)

1. (UK, dialectal) A woodlouse.
   • Mouffet states that “the Asiatic Greeks called them χγαμος from their likenesse^([sic]) to a bean (Galen), for it looks like it when the Cheslip rolls itself up into a round body.”1860, Ernest Adams, “On the names of the wood-louse”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 15
   • In former times it was known as “Lugdor” and “Socchetre ;” and in common with the hoglouse it is familiar to rustics as “Churchlouse,” “Carpenter,” “Chinch,” or “Cheslip.”1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, “Woodlouse”, page 524

   Synonyms:

   woodlouse