barrels

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Sometimes carrells were set up in the cloister, a carrell being a sort of pew, in which study could be conducted with more privacy than in the open cloister.

From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford

The curious wooden contrivances called carrells, which are mentioned in the above quotation from the Rites of Durham, have of course entirely disappeared.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

Range of carrells in the south cloister at Gloucester Cathedral.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

Range of carrells in the south cloister at Gloucester Cathedral.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis

Further, the older monks sat in "carrells," as we learn from the custumary of Abbat Ware, who was in office 1258-83.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis