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語源 1

From Scots hemmel, hammel, dialectal English hemble (“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied to Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy”), German Himmel. Compare English heaven.

名詞

hemmel (複数形 hemmels)

1. (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

参照

• “hemmel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

語源 2

Compare dialectal Swedish hammel (“little bar または beam”).

名詞

hemmel (複数形 hemmels)

1. (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.