tayle
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]tayle
- Alternative form of tayl
Noun
[edit]tayle
- a tally; an account scored on a piece of wood
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- For whether he payde, or toke by tayle
- For whether he paid, or took by tally