Bookfell

Origin

From Middle English bocfel ("parchment"), from Old English bōcfell ("parchment, vellum"), equivalent to book + fell. Cognate with Old High German puohfell ("parchment").

Full definition of bookfell

Noun

1. A skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.
2. A vellum or parchment manuscript.
• 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Apuleius (Barbarus), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos), Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England:Write this on a bookfell or parchment so long that it may embrace the head on the outside, and hang it on the neck of the man who needs it; it will soon be well with him.
• 1878, George Stephens, Thunor the Thunderer:I cannot refer to any facsimile of this bookfell.