Ayle

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ayle \Ayle\, n. [OE. ayel, aiel, OF. aiol, aiel, F. a["i]eul, a
     dim. of L. avus grandfather.]
     A grandfather. [Obs.]
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     {Writ of Ayle}, an ancient English writ which lay against a


        stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of
        which his grandfather died seized.
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