Catel n. Property; often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income. ""For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he."
... market. this was the same party that had communicated the venerial to so many of our party in November last, and of which they have finally recovered. I therefore gave the men a particular charge with rispect to them which they promised me to observe. late this evening we were also visited by Catel a Clatsop man and his family. he brought a canoe and a Sea Otter Skin for sale neither of which we purchased this evening. The Clatsops who had brought a canoe for sale last evening left us early ... — The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
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