dictionary help2. A roll of parchment; a parchment record. Clerk of the pells, formerly, an officer of the exchequer who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called pell rolls.
Origin: OF. Pel, F. Peau, L. Pellis a skin. See Fell a skin.
(01 Mar 1998)
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