dial. Also 8 vartuale. [ad. OF. vertevelle: see VARDLE and VARVEL.] (See later quots.)
1763. in Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss. (1889), 593. Crookes and vartuales and bands, 1 s. 8 d.
1866. Brogden, Linc. Gloss., Vartiwells, a part of a hinge to a gate.
1877. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss., 265. Vartiwell, the eye of a gate in which the crook works.
