selle

Noun (1)

sell (plural sells)

1. An act of selling; sale.
   • Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.1963, American Society of Travel Agents, ASTA Travel News, volume 32, page 55
2. (broadly, figuratively) The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
   • This is going to be a tough sell.
3. An easy task.
4. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
   • "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

sell (plural sells)

1. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
   • The tyrant proud frown’d from his loftie cell, [...].1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold]...
2. (archaic) A saddle.
   • turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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