Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonnell
Literary usage of Tonnell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cursory Sketch of the State of the Naval, Military and Civil by John Bree (1791)
"That therefore the king and his council will give his commandment to the governors
of. the faid dutchy, that no tonnell of what part foever it be within ..."
2. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1906)
"I sente yon an other stonne, the one tonnell ... These stones stodd close together,
and one end of the emptie tonnell was under the ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"(sv Tun, sb.1 3 (2)). tunnel, the shaft of a fire-place, chimney. Webster, Devil's
Law-case, ii. 1 (Crispiano), where chimney means fire-place; tonnell, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"2. A chimney-pipe, from the resemblance to a funnel for pouring. It is remarkable
that tunnel also is used in the two senses. tonnell, to fill wine with, ..."
5. Contested Etymologies in the Dictionary of the Rev. W. W. Skeat by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1882)
"The obviousness of the comparison is witnessed by the fact that tunnel also is
used in the two senses. tonnell, to fill wine with, ..."
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