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单词 girnel
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girneln.

Brit. /ˈɡəːn(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈɡərn(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈɡɪrn(ə)l/
Forms: Also Middle English gyrnall, 1500s girnall, 1500s–1600s girnell, girnal, 1600s gurnell. See also garnel n.1
Etymology: variant of garnel n.1
Scottish.
A granary; also, a large chest for meal.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > granary
corn-housec1000
meal-houseOE
garnerc1175
grangec1384
girnel1452
graner1531
garnery1552
granary1570
grainel1608
corn-crib1716
golah1762
grain-elevator1852
1452 Sc. Acts Jas. II, §4 (1814) II. 41/2 Item it is ordanyt þat na maner of wittail be haldin in gyrnall be ony persone forther þan is needfull.
?1569 W. Lauder Godlie Tractate sig. Cv Ȝe cloise, ȝour Girnallis frome the puris.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 361 The Bischopis girnell was keapt the first nycht by the laubouris of Johne Knox.
1612 Inventory Dean Castle in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock 308 Twa meikill meill gurnells of aick.
a1670 J. Spalding Mem. Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1829) 114 They..brake up girnels, and baked good bannocks at the fire.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 104 Another wooden house..of twenty feet square, which serves at present for a granary or girnal, as they pronounce it, for their oatmeal.
1850 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. (ed. 2) xvii. 258 Each proprietor, too, had his storehouse or girnal—a tall, narrow building, the strong-box of the time.
1860 J. Grant Mary of Lorraine ii Large oak chests, girnels, and almries, the receptacles of linen.

Compounds

girnel river (= breaker).
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a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 208 Muttoun dryver, girnall ryver, ȝadswyvar, fowll fell the.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

girnelv.

/ˈɡəːnɛl/
Etymology: < girnel n.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To store up in a girnel or granary.
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1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 153 Victuall suld not be girnelled, bot suld be brocht to the market.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 337 Thair wes victuell girnellet in store to help to find the soldiouris be way of plundering.

Derivatives

ˈgirnelled adj.
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1481 in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. (1753) i. i. 9 For a Girnel of Corn, Two Bags..and the same from all girnelled goods.
ˈgirnelling n.
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1597 Acts Parl. Scotl. 34 b Girnalling of victuallis is forbidden.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 173 Not thrashing victuall in due tyme, girnalling of it when it is threshen, and not bringing of it to the mercat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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