Obs. rare. Also 3 cheole. [app. identical with OE. ceole wk. fem. ‘throat,’ corresp. to OLG. kela (MDu. kele, Du. keel), OHG. chela, (MHG. kele, Ger. kehle):—OTeut. *kelôn-.] Throat.
c. 1000. Ags. Psalms cxiii[i]. 16. Ne cleopiʓaþ hi, ðeah ðe hi ceolan habban.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 48. Þy-læs seo ceole sie aswollen.
a. 1200. Moral Ode, 362 (Egerton MS.). Ne scal þer beo fou ne grei … ne martres cheole [Trinity Coll. MS. methes-chele].
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 3194. And herte him so þer on þe chel, þat he was neȝ y-slayn.
