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单词 vennel
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venneln.

Brit. /ˈvɛn(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈvɛn(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈvɛn(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈvɛn(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English– vennel, Middle English venal(e, 1500s wennall, wennel, 1500s–1800s vennell, 1600s venel, 1600s–1800s vennal, 1700s vennile; 1600s vinell, 1800s vinnel.
Etymology: < Old French venele, venelle, vanelle (modern French venelle) < Romance type *vēnella (medieval Latin venella), diminutive of Latin vēna vein.
Scottish (Irish English) and northern.
1. A narrow lane, passage, or thoroughfare in a town or city; an alley or wynd. Chiefly Scottish.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > between buildings
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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.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer
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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).
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