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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Scots hemmel, hammel, dialectal English hemble (“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied to Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy”), German Himmel. Compare English heaven.
Noun
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
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Etymology 2
Compare dialectal Swedish hammel (“little bar or beam”).
Noun
hemmel (plural hemmels)
- (UK, dialect, Yorkshire) A handrail, especially one fitted on one side of a planked or wooden bridge.
1989, Ken Radford, Fire Burn, page 50:The bridge was narrow, with barely enough room for one to cross at a time. So they barred her way, the leader clutching the hemmel (handrail) on either side.
Middle Low German
Etymology
From Old Saxon himil.
Pronunciation
Noun
hemmel m
- heaven, sky
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants