| 释义 |
ˈrannel-balk north. dial.
= rannel-tree.
1790Grose Provincial Gloss. (ed. 2) sig. K4, Rannel-tree, cross-beam in a chimney, on which the crook hangs; sometimes called Rannebauk; North. 1817Edin. Monthly Mag. June 241 The rusticity of their benisons amused me.—One wished them, ‘thumpin luck and fat weans’; another, ‘a bien rannle-bauks, and tight thack and rape o'er their heads’. 1859A. Whitehead Legends of Westmorland (1896) 11 Fair shack'd the rannel bawk et swang The keayle pot ower the grate. 1906H. D. Rawnsley Months at Lakes 236 A great cauldron of spiced ale..hung on the ‘rannel bowk’, and was ladled out from time to time into basins and presented to the guests. 1910W. G. Collingwood Dutch Agnes 47 In the chimney at this time of the year mutton⁓hams hanging from the rannelbalk. 1931H. S. Walpole Judith Paris ii. i. 218 He was aware of..sides of bacon hanging, the oak settle screened by the ‘heck’, the ‘rannel⁓balk’ or great wooden beam across the chimney. |