emball

See embale.

• Rhymes: -ɔːl

emball (third-person singular simple present emballs, present participle emballing, simple past and past participle emballed)

1. (obsolete) To encircle, embrace, or surround
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII:

     In faith, for little England / You'd venture an emballing: / I myself would for Carnarvonshire.

   • 1580, Philip Sidney, Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke:

     Thou spheare, within whose bosom play The rest that earth emball.

• “emball”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Lamble, Ma Bell, lambel