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pell

/pɛl/

pell noun: a fur or hide.

Noun

pell (plural pells)

  1. A fur or hide.
  2. A lined cloak or its lining.
  3. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
    • The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer′s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller′s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to...
    • He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty′s Revenue in the 44th...
  4. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
  5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

Verb

pell (third-person singular simple present pells, present participle pelling, simple past and past participle pelled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pelt; to knock about.
    • Beat and pell them downe with perches and poles.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Pell

Pell (plural Pells)

  1. A surname.
    • The SEOG is another type of grant awarded by the federal government to students from low-income families. Like a Pell Grant, you do not have to pay back the SEOG, and you must submit the FAFSA form to be eligible.2018 June 7, Katie Lobosco, “36% of colleges are hiding the cost to students”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 28 May 2025

pell meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

pell in Hindi

पेल

pell in Marathi

पेल

pell in Telugu

పెల్, పెల్ల్

pell in Malayalam

പെൽ, പെല്ല്
More languagesFewer languages
pell in Kannada
ಪೆಲ್, ಪೆಲ್ಲ್
pell in Punjabi
ਪੈੱਲ
pell in Gujarati
પેલ, પેલલ
pell in Odia
ପେଲ୍
pell in Nepali
पेल्ल

Forms of pell

Noun
pluralpells
Verb
third-person singular presentpells
present participlepelling
past participlepelled
pastpelled
Proper noun
pluralPells

Plural of pell: pells

Origin of pell

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

Words formed from pell

Phrases with pell

Words that rhyme with pell

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Questions about pell

What does pell mean?
Pell means a fur or hide.
What is pell in Hindi?
Pell in Hindi is पेल. See Pell meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pell?
Pell can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pell?
Pell is pronounced /pɛl/.
What is the plural of pell?
The plural of pell is pells.

Words near pell in the dictionary

  1. Pelka
  2. Pelkas
  3. Pelkey
  4. Pelkeys
  5. Pelkosenniemi
  6. pell
  7. Pell City
  8. Pell equation
  9. Pell equations
  10. Pell Grant
  11. Pell Grants

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pell (page history and authors); Pell (page history and authors); pell (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pell (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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