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English
Noun
skilla (plural skillas)
- (historical) A bell at the seniors' table in the refectory of a medieval monastery in England.
1916, Ernest Harold Pearce, The Monks of Westminster: Being a Register of the Brethren of the Convent from the Time of the Confessor to the Dissolution, with Lists of the Obedientiaries and an Introduction, Cambridge University Press, page 18:[…] during that year he was promoted to sit by the skilla in the Refectory, and Abbot Colchester must at once have sent him to Rome, for he was there as a proctor for three years up to Sep. 1390, thus excusing the Abbot his triennial visit "ad limina" […]
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Noun
skilla n
- definite plural of skille