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weanel, wennel Now dial.|ˈwiːnəl|, |ˈwɛn(ə)l|
Forms: 5 weynelle, 6 weanell, weannel, wennell, 6, 8–9 wennel, 7– weanel.
[f. wean v. + -el2.]
An animal newly weaned, a weanling.
1488–9in Rep. MSS. Ld. Middleton (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1911) 472, xv. weynelles, le pece ij s. viij d. 1557Tusser 100 Points Husb. lxxvii, Pinch weannels at no time of water nor meate. 1573–80― Husb. (1878) 61 Yoong colts with thy wennels together go serue. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 198 A Lambe, or a Kidde, or a weanell wast. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric., Dict. Rust., Weanel, a young Beast newly weaned. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Wennel. 1879Hertford Mercury Dec., Advt., 26 Home-bred Steers and Sturks,..4 Weanels, 2 Down Calving Cows.
appositive.1588Theocritus' Idillia viii. A ij b, Ile pawne a calfe, a wennell lambe laie thou to it. |