skilla
skilla noun: a bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.
Noun
skilla (plural skillas)
- A bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.
- […] during that year he was promoted to sit by the skilla in the Refectory, and Abbot Colchester must at once have sent him to Rome, for he was there as a proctor for three years up to Sep. 1390, thus excusing the Abbot his triennial visit "ad limina" […]1916, Ernest Harold Pearce, The Monks of Westminster: Being a Register of the Brethren of the Convent from the Time of the Confessor to the Dissolution, with Lists of the Obedientiaries and an...
Forms of skilla
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Questions about skilla
- What does skilla mean?
- Skilla means a bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.
- What part of speech is skilla?
- Skilla is a noun.
- What is the plural of skilla?
- The plural of skilla is skillas.
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