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Cusle (gender unknown)

(with) definite article: ?
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Cuisley cuil

According to Flood, who fails to reveal his source, old Irish (modern form: Cuisle) for "pulsing of the artery in the wrist, but primarily the vein, a blood vessel".


Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile].

Flood, Wm. H. [William Henry] Grattan: The story of the bagpipe. London, 1911, p.19.