FromScotshemmel,hammel, dialectalEnglishhemble(“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied toDutchhemel(“heaven, canopy”),GermanHimmel. CompareEnglishheaven.
hemmel (pluralhemmels)
- (UK, dialect, Northumbria) Ashed orhovel forcattle.
1864 June, John Ewart, “The Profitable Management of Farms in the Vicinity of Large Towns”, inThe Farmer's Magazine:Cattle kept inhemmels should always have their food may be stated that the roofs of all the buildings should given to them in the sheds
Compare dialectalSwedishhammel(“little bar or beam”).
hemmel (pluralhemmels)
- (UK, dialect, Yorkshire) A handrail, especially one fitted on one side of a planked or wooden bridge.
1989, Ken Radford,Fire Burn, page50:The bridge was narrow, with barely enough room for one to cross at a time. So they barred her way, the leader clutching thehemmel(handrail) on either side.
FromOld Saxonhimil.
hemmel m
- heaven,sky
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