Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Tell
telescopictell (-ing, -s, told)
Tell, proper n. [OE tęllan, relate, say, count, speak.]
William Tell (14th century); main character in Friedrich Schiller's poem; Swiss hero forced to shoot an apple off his son's head; legendary rebel who refused to bow to bailiff Gessler's hat in the town square.
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