catel
See also: cățel
English
Etymology
See chattel.
Noun
catel
- (obsolete) Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for catel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Old French
Noun
catel m (oblique plural cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative singular cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative plural catel)
- (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chatel
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