Noun: cashel
| Singular | cashel |
| Plural | cashels |
Sample Sentences
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A cashel is basically a ringfort (a circulr living area surrounded by an earthen bank and ditch) in which the bank surrounding the settlement is a stone wall; often, cashels did not have a surrounding ditch. [2013, Pamela Crabtree, Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia:]
Nouns inflected like cashel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Irish caiseal, from Old Irish caisel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of castell, castellum, castle, and château. See: Irish Nouns '
caiseal', Latin Nouns '
castellum'.