emball

English

Etymology

See embale.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːl

Verb

emball (third-person singular simple present emballs, present participle emballing, simple past and past participle emballed)

1. (obsolete) To encircle or embrace.
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII:

     In faith, for little England / You'd venture an emballing: / I myself would for Carnarvonshire.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emball”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Lamble, Ma Bell, lambel