Also 8 cheswell, chessil. [app. f. CHEESE + WELL.] A cheese-vat.
1721. Kelly, Sc. Prov., 141 (Jam.). He is gone out of the Cheswell he was made in [i.e., the position in which he was born].
1805. R. Forsyth, Beauties Scotl., II. 157. The curds are put into the chessel or cheese-mould, which is placed under the press.
1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric., I. 209. The press (constructed so as to hold four chessils) … A fine round cloth, the size of the chessil bottom.
