1. People summoned to serve fill vacancies on a jury
   "When several jurors were dismissed, the judge called for tales to complete the panel"
    
2. A writ summoning people to fill an incomplete jury
   "The court issued tales to ensure a full jury for the high-profile case"

1. A written or spoken account of an act, occurrence or course of events
   "his tale was interesting";
   - narrative, narration, story
    
2. A trivial lie
   "he told a tale about eating his spinach";
   - fib [informal], story, tarradiddle [informal], taradiddle [informal], porky [Brit, informal], porky pie [Brit, informal]

Sounds like: tales

Type of: content, lie[2], message, prevarication, subject matter, substance

Encyclopedia: Tales, Jataka