Lexicographical Neighbors of Girnels
Literary usage of Girnels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1908)
"... regiment keeping of one of the girnels thirty four weeks, ... Evans dragoons
keeping two of the girnels twenty four weeks, ..."
2. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1835)
"... girnels, on the ground, that " under the above-quoted clause in the foresaid
disposition by the said James Kellie, the elder, in virtue of which, ..."
3. The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, in the by John Spalding (1829)
"sheep, and kine, for their meat ; they brake np girnels, where they had meal and
... where they lived upon the laird's girnels and goods while they were ..."
4. Antiquarian Gleanings from Aberdeenshire Records edited by Gavin Turreff (1871)
"... they killed and destroyed the bestial, nolt, sheep, and kine, for their meat;
they brake up girnels, where they had meal and malt. ..."
5. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"The other, which is the master's, is laid up in his girnels or stores, and for
the most part sent out afterwards in great parcels either for England, ..."
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