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Quotation dates: 1513, 1597-1700+
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Dyall, Dyell, n. Also: diall, dayell, -ill. [ME. dyal (1430), dyall, diall, of obscure origin.] A dial indicating the time of day. Also fig.(a) 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 341.
Chaucer … In eloquens balmy cundyt and dyall [Sm. diall] 1513 Ib. xii. Prol. 278.
By hys hew, but orleger or dyall, I knew it was past four houris of day 1597 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 158.
The perfyting, ending, and vpputting of ane dyell … one the tolbuyth 1633 Master of Works Accounts XXV. 37 b.
For gilding, making, and graving the dyellin the north ȝaird 1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 233 b.
Sex baine dyellis(b) 1633 Master of Works Accounts XXV. 45 b.
For painting of the dayell and counsell hous 1677 Greyfriars Interments 14.
John Alexander, dayill maker 1720 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 98.
Gilding and paynting of the dayell in Hutchisons Hospitalls yeard
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