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单词 girnel
释义 I. girnel, n. Sc.|ˈgɜːnɛl|
Also 5 gyrnall, 6 girnall, 6–7 girnell, girnal. See also garnel.
[variant of garnel.]
A granary; also, a large chest for meal.
1452Sc. Acts Jas. II, §4 (1814) II. 41/2 Item it is ordanyt þat na maner of wittail be haldin in gyrnall be ony persone forther þan is needfull.1568Lauder Godlie Tractate 490 Ȝe cloise ȝour Girnallis frome the puris.a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. (1846) I. 361 The Bischopis girnell was keapt the first nycht by the laubouris of Johne Knox.a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 114 They..brake up girnels, and baked good bannocks at the fire.1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scotl. 104 Another wooden house..of twenty feet square, which serves at present for a granary or girnal, as they pronounce it, for their oatmeal.1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xvii. (1857) 258 Each proprietor, too, had his storehouse or girnal—a tall, narrow building, the strong-box of the time.1860J. Grant Mary of Lorraine ii, Large oak chests, girnels, and almries, the receptacles of linen.
b. Comb., as girnel river (= breaker).
1508Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 246 Muttoun dryver, girnall [v.r. garnale] ryver, ȝadswyvar, fowll fell the.
II. girnel, v. Sc. Obs. rare.|ˈgɜːnɛl|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To store up in a girnel or granary.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. 153 Victuall suld not be girnelled, bot suld be brocht to the market.a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1792) II. 167 There was victual girnelled in store to help to find the soldiers by way of plundering.
Hence ˈgirnelled ppl. a., ˈgirnelling vbl. n.
1481in Maitland Hist. Edin. i. i. (1753) 9 For a Girnel of Corn, Two Bags..and the same from all girnelled goods.1597Acts Parl. Scotl. 34 b, Girnalling of victuallis is forbidden.1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 173 Not thrashing victuall in due tyme, girnalling of it when it is threshen, and not bringing of it to the mercat.
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