Obs. Also 3–7 cotel. [a. OF. cotel, coutel, earlier coltel:—L. cultellum knife.] ‘A short knife or dagger in use during the Middle Ages’ (Fairholt); a knife. Cf. CUTTLE, sb.
[1292. Britton, II. xxii. § 4. Cotels, haches, et bastouns.]
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. lxxi. (1739), 194. That Statute that forbids the use of a pointed Sword, or pointed Cotel … at that sport.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I., p. 90. Leaving the knife, a ten penny coutel, in his body.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 112. The coutel … a military knife … added to the offensive weapons [in Edward I.’s time].
