Peakreln.adj.
/ˈpiːkr(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈpikr(ə)l/ British. Now rare.
An inhabitant of the Peak District. Also: a horse, sheep, etc., from this area. Also occasionally as adj.
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1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake (1682) 18 Two hob-nail Peakrills, one on either side, Your arms supporting, like a bashful bride,..And thus, from Rock to Rock they slide you down.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) III. 79 The Peakrills, as they are called, are a rude boorish kind of People; but bold, daring, and even desperate in their Search into the Bowels of the Earth.
1779 Archaeologia 5 375 The weight of this pig [of lead]..is..a proper load for a small peakril horse to travel with.
1808 W. Marshall Rev. Rep. to Board Agric. from Northern Dept. Eng. 523 The stock of the more southerly heathlands are native mountain sheep, of a light frame..and bear the name of ‘Peakrils’.
1899 Daily News 31 July 8/7 The credulous tourist..fails to perceive at a glance the purport of the Peakrels humour.
1928 J. B. Firth Highways & Byways in Derbyshire (new ed.) xxviii. 419 The Peakrills generally were reputed to be ‘a rude, boorish kind of people’. The phrase is Defoe's.
1977 J. B. Hilton Dead-nettle ii. 15 The Peakrels are an unforthcoming and unself-revealing community... Your Peakrel does not wear his heart upon his sleeve.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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