hemmel
English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Scots hemmel, hammel, dialectal English hemble (“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied to Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy”), German Himmel. Compare English heaven.
Noun edit
hemmel (plural hemmels)
- (UK, dialect, Northumbria) A shed or hovel for cattle.
- 1864 June, John Ewart, “The Profitable Management of Farms in the Vicinity of Large Towns”, in The Farmer's Magazine:
- Cattle kept in hemmels should always have their food may be stated that the roofs of all the buildings should given to them in the sheds
References edit
- “hemmel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
Compare dialectal Swedish hammel (“little bar or beam”).
Noun edit
hemmel (plural hemmels)
Middle Low German edit
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hemmel m
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.