Zell

See also: zelʹlʹ and ZELL

English

Proper noun

Zell

1. Former name of Yell: an island, one of the Shetland islands.
   • 1761, William Thompson, A Copy of Thompson's Justification, Founded on the Solid Principles of Truth and Public Virtue, London: [s.n.], page 8:

     I hope I ſhall not greatly offend in alſo bringing to remembrance at this time, the miſchief and horrors that the French ſpread at Bengal, and the piercing ſcenes of woe which they baſely perpetrated at Zell, and how aſtoniſhingly furious they raged there with brutal madneſs, being ſo amazingly wanton and inhuman in their obſcenery and cruelties, […]

2. Ellipsis of Zell am See, a town in Salzburg, Austria.