Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tresayle

Tresayle (tres"āl`) , noun

[French trisaieul, from Latin tris, tres, three + French aieul grandfather. Compare Besaiel, and see Ayle.]

A grandfather's grandfather. [Obsolete]
Collocations (1)
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