pell

A fur or hide.

Noun

A fur or hide.
A lined cloak or its lining.
A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
- 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty′s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward...
A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

To pelt; to knock about.
- Beat and pell them downe with perches and poles. - 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of...