Obs. Also 5 chylendere, chilinder, chylander, -laundre, -lawndur, 6 chilandre. [ad. med.L. chilindr-us (in same sense) for L. cylindrus, a. Gr. κυλινδρος CYLINDER: cf. It. cilindro ‘a kinde of diall’ (Florio).] A kind of portable sun-dial of cylindrical form used in early times.
[See 13–14th-c. treatise De composicione chilindri, and Hoveden’s Practica chilindri (Chaucer Soc. pt. 1, 2).]
c. 1386. Chaucer, Shipm. T., 204. And lat us dyne as soone as þat ye may ffor by my chilyndre [v.r. chylendere, chilinder] it is pryme of day.
c. 1430. Lydg., Siege Thebes (Arundel MS. 119 lf. 18). By my chilyndre I gan anon to se, Thorgh þe sonne þat ful cler gan shyne, Of þe clok that it drogh to nyne.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 74. Chylander or chylawndur.
c. 1450. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 572. Chilindrus, a leuel vel est instrumentum quo hore notantur [a chylaundre].
1530. Palsgr., 205/1. Chilandre, chilandre.
