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Stanchall, -el(l, Stainȝell, n. Also: stainchel(l, stenchel. [e.m.E. stanyel (c1475), stannel (1601), staniel (1630), OE stán(e)ȝella. Also stanchel in the 18th-19th c. Sc. dial. The alteration of ȝ to ch is also evidenced s.v. Stanch(e)our n.] A kestrel. Also, appar., in a place-name. 1165–1214 Liber Melros 43.
Scilicet vt iste sint divise de vado stainchelesburn; per transuersam moram [etc.](a) c1450-2 Howlat 652 (A).
Thar was the haraldis fa the hobby but fable Stanchalis [B. Stanchellis] steropis strecht to thai stern lordis With alkyn officeris in erd awenand & able [etc.] c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xxxiii 82.
The tarsall gaif him tug for tug A stanchell hang in ilka lug 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 50/146.
The rauin, the stainchell, and the gled a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 11.
Tinnancalus, a stenchel 1684 Sibbald Scot. Illustr. iii 15.
Hawks … Tinnunculus mas & foemina Stanchel(b) 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 365.
The stainȝell and the schakerstane, … The snype with syndry vther fouls [etc.]
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