Now dial. [f. TELL v.]
1. What one tells or has to tell; a tale, a statement, an account.
1742. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 29 July. I am at the end of my tell.
1827. F. Cooper, Prairie, I. ii. 32. From his tell, it must be a considerable stream.
1899. Westcott, David Harum, xxx. As near ’s I c’n make out f’m Dave’s tell, he must ’a’ ben red-headed.
2. A talk, conversation, gossip.
1864. Mrs. Lloyd, Ladies Polc., 101. I made so bould as to come to see if you’d plase to have a bit of a tell with me afore I goes.
1901. ‘Zack,’ Tales Dunstable Weir, 99. Having a tongue she dearly liked a tell.
