costrel

English

Etymology

Compare Welsh costrel, Old French costrel, Latin costrellum (“a liquid measure”), costrellus (“a wine cup”).

Noun

costrel (plural costrels)

  1. (archaic) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
    • Tennyson
      A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore / The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 costrel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English costrel, costrell(e), from Old French costrel, from Latin costrellum (“a liquid measure”), costrellus (“a wine cup”).

Noun

costrel f (plural costrelau or costreli)

  1. flagon, bottle, costrel
  2. skin bottle
  3. keg
  4. measure of two quarts

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • costrelaid f (“bottleful, flagonful”)
  • costrelan f (“phial, ampulla, flask”)
  • costrelau'r nefoedd f pl (“the clouds”, literally “the bottles of heaven”)
  • costrel bridd f (“jug, stone bottle”)
  • costrelfarch m (“bottle-rack”)
  • costrel gron f (“borachio”)
  • costreliad m (“bottling”)
  • costrelig f (“small costrel, phial, flask”)
  • costrelu (“to bottle, preserve, treasure”)
  • costrel win f (“wine bottle”)
  • costrelwr m, costrelydd m (“one who carries wine or water in bottles; bottle-maker or seller”)
  • costrel wydr f (“glass bottle”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
costrel gostrel nghostrel chostrel
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “costrel”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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