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chisley

chisley adjective: having a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.

Adjective

chisley (comparative more chisley, superlative most chisley)

  1. (dated) Having 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)

Proper noun capitalized: Chisley

Chisley (plural Chisleys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of chisley

Adjective
comparativemore chisley
superlativemost chisley
Proper noun
pluralChisleys

Origin of chisley

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

Americanized form of German Schüssler or a variant of Chesley.

Questions about chisley

What does chisley mean?
Chisley means having a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.
What part of speech is chisley?
Chisley can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near chisley in the dictionary

  1. Chislehurst
  2. Chislet
  3. Chislett
  4. Chisleu
  5. Chislev
  6. chisley
  7. Chisleys
  8. chislic
  9. chism
  10. Chismar
  11. Chismars

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