Enghsh
As he was turning his team back at one end of the field, he heard some one calling out from the other end, Y mae eisieu hoelenyny ptl, or ' The peel wants a nail '; for pil is the Enghsh peel, a name
As he was turning his team back at one end of the field, he heard some one calling out from the other end, Y mae eisieu hoelenyny ptl, or ' The peel wants a nail '; for pil is the Enghsh peel, a name (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)
If I might speak from my own experience, I might mention a difficulty I have often had with shoes of Enghsh make, namely, that I have always found them, unless made to measure, apt to have their inste (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: As he was turning his team back at one end of the field, he heard some one calling out from the other end, Y mae eisieu hoelenyny ptl, or ' The peel wants a nail '; for pil is the Enghsh peel, a name (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter III: Fairy Ways and Words)
"As he was turning his team back at one end of the field, he heard some one calling out from the other end, Y mae eisieu hoelenyny ptl, or ' The peel wants a nail '; for pil is the Enghsh peel, a name given to a sort of shovel provided with a long handle for placing loaves in an oven, and for getting them out again."
- attestation: If I might speak from my own experience, I might mention a difficulty I have often had with shoes of Enghsh make, namely, that I have always found them, unless made to measure, apt to have their inste (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"If I might speak from my own experience, I might mention a difficulty I have often had with shoes of Enghsh make, namely, that I have always found them, unless made to measure, apt to have their instep too low for me."