Obs. Also 3 cul, 4 cuyl. [a. F. cul: see CUL.] The rump; a buttock.
c. 1220. Bestiary, 741, in O. E. Misc., 23. Of ðo ðe he wile he nimeð ðe cul And fet him wel.
c. 1325. Coer de L., 1822. ‘Away dogs with your taile!… Men schal threste in your cuyl!’
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIV. iii. The cule or buttoks.
1528. Roy, Rede me (Arb.), 56. Then foloweth my lorde on his mule Trapped with golde vnder her cule.
1543. in Bp. Hutchinson, Witchcraft (1718), 31. She told her Neighbours it would make the Cule of the Maid divide into Two Parts.
1825. Jamieson, Cules, s.pl. Buttocks (Lat. nates).
