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Gabriel|ˈgeɪbrɪəl| [Heb. Gabhrīēl (LXX and N.T. Γαβρήλ).] The name of one of the archangels: see Dan. ix. 21; Luke i. 19, 26. Used in certain phrases, as Gabriel-bell (see quot.); Gabriel('s)-hound (see quots.); Gabriel-rache, -rachet (in some dialects corruptly Gabble-ratch, -ratchet) = Gabriel-hound.
1849–53Rock Ch. of Fathers III. ix. 338 There yet hangs the *Gabriel-bell..which the sexton had to ring at morn and evening every day as a bidding to the people..that they should greet our Lady with these five ‘Hail Marys’.
16..Kennett in MS. Lansd. 1033 in Cath. Angl. 147 note, At Wednesbury in Staffordshire, the colliers going to their pits early in the morning hear the noise of a pack of hounds in the air, to which they give the name of *Gabriel's Hounds, though the more sober and judicious take them only to be wild geese, making this noise in their flight. 1876Whitby Gloss., Gabriel hounds, the flocks of yelping wild geese high in the air, migrating southward in the twilight evenings of autumn, their cry being more audible than the assemblage is visible. As the foreboders of evil, people close their ears and cover their eyes until the phalanx has passed over.
1483Cath. Angl. 147/2 *Gabrielle rache, camalion. [1808–25Jamieson, Gaubertie-shells..a hobgoblin who..has been heard to make a loud roaring, accompanied with a barking similar to that of little dogs..and a clattering resembling that of shells striking against each other. Lanarks.] 1891Atkinson Last of Giantkillers 196 He also told me a very great deal about the Gabriel-rachet..and all that it could ever foreshow. 1893J. H. Turner Hist. Brighouse 240 No wonder that hobgoblins..gabble-ratches and headless-horses scoured the country. |