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▪ I. † hamel1 Obs. exc. dial. Also hamell, -il. [a. OF. hamel (13th c. in Littré). mod.F. hameau, (med.L. hamellum), dim. of *ham (Picard ham, hem), a. WGer. haim village, dwelling, home.] = hamlet.
c1514Exam. Cokeye More in Chetham Misc. (1856) II. 7 How feere the town or hamell of Aynsworth extends. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. xv. (1539) 33 No townschyppe nor hamell. 1708Termes de la Ley 390 Hamlet, Hamel, or Hampsel are diminutives of Ham, which signifies an Habitation. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) p. xxxvii, They look'nt on im as th' Hammil-Scoance. 1885Cheshire Gloss., Hamil Sconce, the light of the village or hamlet. ▪ II. hamel2 S. Afr. (ˈhɑːməl, ‖ ˈhaməl) [Afrikaans = Du. hamel, G. hammel castrated ram; cf. hamble v.] A wether.
1835A. Smith Diary 22 Apr. (1939) I. 376 If relatives rich, sometimes kill ten oxen and ten hamels. 1871H. H. Dugmore Remin. Albany Settler 14 A dozen of startled hamels, just separated from a large flock, would be likely to try a driver's legs, and lungs too, in crossing it. 1895W. C. Scully Kafir Stories 28 Would your father have let me die rather than take a hamel from the flock of a rich, lazy boer, who never counts his sheep? 1896R. Wallace Farm. Ind. Cape Col. xvii. 346 Ram lambs are..‘sorted’ to make wethers or hamels. 1950Cape Times 14 Dec. 13/6 At an auction sale..hamels fetched {pstlg}6 11s.—the highest price for hamels in this district. ▪ III. hamel variant of hamald, hamble. |