Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
isle , aisle, eel, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Isle.
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Examples
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Fro this lond men gon to another yle, that is clept Silha: and it is welle a 800 myles aboute.
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And from that yle, men gon be see, from yle to yle, unto an yle, that is clept Tracoda; where the folk of that contree ben as bestes and unresonable, and duellen in caves, that thei maken in the erthe; for thei have no wytt to maken hem houses.
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And faste besyde is another yle, that is clept Betemga, that is a gode yle and a plentyfous.
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From that kyngdom comen men, in returnynge, to another yle, that is clept Rybothe: and it is also under the grete Chane.
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Besyde that yle that I have spoken of, there is another yle, that is clept Sumobor, that is a gret yle: and the kyng thereof is righte myghty.
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From that yle, in goynge be see, toward the southe, is another gret yle, that is clept Dondun.
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And bezonde theise yles, there is another yle, that is clept
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Aftre that yle, men gon be the see occean, be many yles, unto an yle, that is clept Nacumera; that is a gret yle and good and fayr: and it is in kompas aboute, more than a 1000 myle.
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Aftre this yle, men gon be see to another yle, that is clept
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And thanne comen men in returnynge to an yle, that is clept Casson: and that yle hathe wel 60 jorrneyes in lengthe, and more than 50 in brede.
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