catel

See also: cățel

Middle English

Etymology

See Modern English chattel.

Noun

catel

Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 541-2.
  Hise tithes payed he ful faire and wel,
  
  Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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