different between oyl vs orl

English

Noun

oyl

1. Obsolete spelling of oil

   • Near to the I?land Hainan are caught Whales,after the ?ame manner as the Hollanders and Engli?h in the North about Greenland, whereof they make Oyl which ?erves for ?everal u?es.

   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14:

     ...into the glands that separate the oyl abovesaid.

Related terms

• oyly

Anagrams

• 'oly, Loy, loy, lyo-

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [??l]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [??l]

Noun

oyl m (plural oylys)

1. oil

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.142)

Middle English

Noun

oyl

1. Alternative form of oyle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ôrl, IPA^(key): /??l/
• (US) enPR: ôrl, IPA^(key): /??l/
• Homophone: orle

Etymology 1

Metathetic variant of olr, itself a variant of alr, itself a contraction of aller, itself a form of alder closer to the original Old English form of alor, aler (the d was a phonetic addition in Middle English); compare the English oryelle, as well as the Old High German erila, the Middle High German erle, and the Modern German Erle.

Noun

orl (plural orls)

1. (in some British dialects, now rare) An alder tree.
2. (obsolete, rare, elliptically) orl fly

Derived terms

• orl fly (angling)

References

• “Orl” listed on page 205 of volume VII (O–P) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1909]
  Orl, dial. form of olr, alr, Alder, the tree. [¶] [c 1440, see Oryelle.] 1747 R. Bowlker Art of Angling 27 This Hedge ought to be made chiefly of Orls. 1804 Duncumb Hist. Hereford I. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Orl, the wood alder. [¶] Hence Orl-fly, ellipt. Orl, the alder-fly, Sialis lutarius, used by anglers. [¶] 1747 R. Bowlker Art of Angling 69 The Orle Fly..is the best Fly to Fish with after the May Flyes are gone. 1787 Best Angling (ed. 2) 115 The Orl fly comes on the latter end of May and continues on till the latter end of June. 1875 W. Houghton Brit. Insects 64 The well-known orl or Alder-fly (Sialis lutarius).
• “orl” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition, 1989)
• “orl, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, September 2004)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling.

Adverb

orl (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of all.

   That’s orl right.

Anagrams

• LRO, Lor, lor