abele|əˈbiːl,ˈeɪbəl|Also 7–8 abeele, abeal, abeile.[a.Du.abeel (abeel-boom), a.OFr.abel, earlier aubel (albel), northFr.aubiel:—late L. albell-us (found in 12th c., applied to this tree),dim.of alb-us, white. (See Diez 351, and Grimm Dict.I. 22.).]The white poplar tree (Populus alba).1681Lond.Gaz.mdclxii. 4If any Person desire to be furnished with young Abeele Plants..they may be furnished with what quantity they please,..at 10s. a hundred.1681WorlidgeSyst.Agric.96The Abele-tree is a finer kind of white Poplar, and is best propagated of Slips from the Roots.1703Art's Improvement I. 33The whitest Wood, and such as the Grain is least visible in, is fitest for this purpose; as Aspen, Abel, Sycamore, Maple or good white Beech.1725BradleyFam.Dict.s.v.Poplar,There is a finer sort of white Poplar, which the Dutch call Abele, and is transported hither from Holland.Ibid.s.v.Garden-fences,Lime-trees or Horse Chesnuts, whose Roots do less harm than those of Elms, Abeals, or almost any other Tree.1730SwiftWks.II. 636You have cut down more plantations of willows and abeles than would purchase a dozen such islands.1850Mrs. BrowningPoems II. 49Six abeles i'the kirkyard grow, on the north-side in a row.1859KingsleyPlays & Puritans (1873) 76The one great abele tossing its sheets of silver in the dying gusts.