Definition of Girnel

1. a large vat [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Girnel

girly girl
girly girls
girly man
girly men
girlygirl
girlygirls
girlyman
girlymen
girlz
girlzine
girlzines
girned
girnel (current term)
girnels
girner
girners
girnie
girnier
girniest
girning
girns
giro
giro account
giro cheque
girolle
girolles
giron

Literary usage of Girnel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"But girnel turned with a grunt, and moved away toward the cliff. ... A man 'at's honest-i' the main may play the So girnel was allowed to depart — scarcely ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1816)
"... told them, he had hid it under the large girnel in the barn, and told them they need not stir it, as it was safe enough there ; l>ut they answered, ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... told them, he had hid it under the large girnel in the barn, and told them they need not stir it, as it was safe enough there ; but they answered, ..."

4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"... and accordingly the deponent went and took the said linn from the girnel, where the said Allan told him he had hid it, and concealed them all together ..."

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