chisley

See also: Chisley

English

Etymology

From Old English ceosel (“gravel or sand”). Compare chessom.

Adjective

chisley (comparative more chisley, superlative most chisley)

1. (dated, of soil) Having a mixture of small pebbles or gravel.
   • 1792, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     No. II. was a coarse unkind piece of land, of a soil neither clayey nor gravelly, but something between both, and which my men called chisley.

References

• “chisley”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.