DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 3. in Fortifications, '..a great eare. but properly that part of a bulwarke which enginers call the pome, the gard, the shoulder or eares to couer the casamats’ (obsolete) (Florio 1611, definition of Orecchione) also COILLEN, COILLON, COLION, COLLIAN, COLLION, COLYON, COLYOUN, COULION, COYLLON, COYLON, CULION, CULLIAN, CULLYEN, CULYON CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from French couillon = Provencal colho, Spanish cojon, Italian coglione, Romanic derivative of Latin cōleus, culleus bag, testicle, from Greek κόλεος sheath c 1386 - Canterbury Tales, Pardoner's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer; see below From: Chaucer Society The Ellesmere MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall Part V, 1874 Pardoner's Tale P. 331 (for definition 2)
From: The Last of the Barons By the Right Hon, Lord Lytton, 1843 Chapter II. The Broken Cittern P. 33
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