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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Be-sāy'le', n.

noun

n. [Norm. Fr. besayle, O. Fr. beseel, N. Fr. bisayeul, bisaieul, from Lat. bis, twice, and L. Lat. avolus, dim. of Lat. avus, grandfather. See AYLE.]

  1. A great-grandfather.
  2. (Law.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished with other real actions. Blackstone.