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skillas

skillas is the plural of skilla.

Meaning of skilla

Noun

skilla (plural skillas)

  1. (historical) 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...

Questions about skillas

What is skillas the plural of?
Skillas is the plural of skilla.

Words near skillas in the dictionary

  1. skill-less
  2. skill-lessness
  3. skill-stop
  4. skilla
  5. skillage
  6. skillas
  7. skilled
  8. skilled up
  9. skilledly
  10. skillenton
  11. skillentons

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