All 8 Uses of
chattel
in
The Canterbury Tales
- *fitted For chattels hadde they enough and rent, And eke their wives would it well assent: And elles certain they had been to blame.†
Chpt 1.0 *
- His tithes payed he full fair and well, Both of his *proper swink*, and his chattel** *his own labour* **goods In a tabard* he rode upon a mare.†
Chpt 1.0
- The parson of the town, for she was fair, In purpose was to make of her his heir Both of his chattels and his messuage, And *strange he made it* of her marriage.†
Chpt 1.3
- For loss of chattels may recover'd be, But loss of time shendeth* us, quoth he.†
Chpt 2.5
- Senec, among his other wordes wise, Saith, that a man ought him right well advise,* *consider To whom he gives his hand or his chattel.†
Chpt 4.10
- * *forbid gambling* Hazard is very mother of leasings,* *lies And of deceit, and cursed forswearings: Blasphem' of Christ, manslaughter, and waste also Of chattel* and of time; and furthermo' *property It is repreve,* and contrar' of honour, *reproach For to be held a common hazardour.†
Chpt 6.14
- This widow, of which I telle you my tale, Since thilke day that she was last a wife, In patience led a full simple life, For little was *her chattel and her rent.†
Chpt 7.20
- Then is discipline eke in knocking of thy breast, in scourging with yards [rods], in kneelings, in tribulations, in suffering patiently wrongs that be done to him, and eke in patient sufferance of maladies, or losing of worldly catel [chattels], or of wife, or of child, or of other friends.†
Chpt 10.24
Definition:
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(chattel) owned property (in law, tangible property other than real estate)