[It. casale, f. casa house.] A hamlet (in Italy, Malta).
1506. Guylforde, Pilgr. (1851), 56. We landed … and wente to suche casales as we founde, and refresshed us.
1810. Coleridge, Friend (1818), III. 321. A venerable old man, belonging to one of the distant casals.
1834. F. F. Head, Bubbles of Brunnen, 190. People who had come from the most remote casals [in Malta] to see the execution.
