单词 | vennel |
释义 | venneln. Scottish (Irish English) and northern. 1. A narrow lane, passage, or thoroughfare in a town or city; an alley or wynd. Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > between buildings twitchenOE chare12.. shut1300 alley1360 entryc1405 wyndc1425 vennel1435 trance1545 row1599 ginnel1669 ruelle1679 gangway1785 pend close1819 ope1825 jitty1836 scutchell1847 gully1849 bolt1855 opeway1881 snicket1898 jigger1902 jowler1961 1435 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 30 A land in the west gate lyand neste the comoune vennel. 1439 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 64 The comon venale callit Sanct Leonardis wynde. 1477 Extr. Aberd. Rec. (1844) I. 36 That the alderman..pass through the toune to see the venalis that are closit. 1531 Abst. Protocols Town Clerks of Glasgow IV. (1897) 43 The common wennel of the Gray Freris. 1562 in Archæol. Æliana (1856) I. 41 Two burgages or tenements lying together in Spycer Lane, abutting on a vennel called the Stonye Hyll. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 155 Gif ther be any venels stopped, or bigged vp. 1706 in M'Naught Kilmaurs xix. 251 To send one man out of every house..to repair the high wayes and venniles. 1727 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 425 The vennell or wynd called Lossie or Carman's wynd. 1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) ii. 24 Some through Preston vennal fled. 1859 W. Anderson Discourses (1860) 2nd Ser. 106 When he is away to hold the prayer-meeting down the Vennel. 1879 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 11 137/1 In the town of Strabane, Ireland, there are a number of narrow passages, called ‘vennels’, from the main street to the river shore. 2. northern. An open drain or gutter; a sewer. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer cockey1390 gutterc1440 soughc1440 sew1475 withdraught1493 sink1499 syre1513 closet1531 draught1533 vault1533 drain1552 fleet1583 issue1588 drainer1598 guzzle1598 shore1598 sewer1609 vennel1641 cloaca1656 cuniculus1670 pend1817 thurrock1847 sewer line1977 1641 in R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (1894) (at cited word) Paid Strother for making cleane the common vennell before Widdow Wilson's doore, 1s. a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Vennel, a gutter, called the kennel..elsewhere. Northumb. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Vennel, a sewer. 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 93 Carry't t' watter off beaath ways inteh t' vennels. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1435 |
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