Category:Tresayle

Tres"ayle` (três"al`), n. Etym: [f. trisaïeul, from l. tris, tres, Three + f. aïeul grandfather. Cf. Besaiel, and see ayle.]

Defn: a grandfather's grandfather. [obs.] Writ of tresayle (o. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his Grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been Deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.