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单词 ornel
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orneln.

Forms: late Middle English ornel, late Middle English ornell; Scottish pre-1700 ornail, pre-1700 ornaile, pre-1700 ornaill, pre-1700 ornal, pre-1700 ornale, pre-1700 ornall, pre-1700 ornell.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymon: French ornaulx.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < Middle French ornaulx (plural), of unknown origin, although this is attested in continental sources only from the end of the 14th to the 15th centuries, and in a slightly different sense, denoting a kind of rubble.It is unclear whether the following earlier examples are to be interpreted as Middle English or Anglo-Norman (quots. 1338, 1349 are ultimately taken from the same source as quot. 1348):1338 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) vii. 129 [400 stones of Maydenston called] ournal.1348 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 471/1 m. 3 Pro iiijxx. xj. pedibus de Asshelere emptis pro predicta posterna;..pro .ijc. pedibus de Vrnal emptis pro eodem.1349 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) vii. 129 Urnel [stone of Kent for the postern].1365 in E. W. Brayley & J. Britton Hist. Palace Westminster (1836) 187 [5675 feet of stone called] urnell.
Obsolete.
A soft white building stone.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > other types of building stone
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1432 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 212 (MED) Item pur Ornell stone iiij fot a x s.
1442–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 388 Fraught of cj quarter and a-half of Ornel contenyng iij tonne fro London vn to ye College.
1535–6 M. Workes Acct. I. 140 xxviii pece ornell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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