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Definition of "girnel" [girnel]

  • A granary; a meal-chest; a meal-tub. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "girnel" in a sentence
  • "Jenny, “when we hae sent awa the haill meal in the ark and the girnel?”"
  • "In the county of Aberdeen, in particular, every homestead had its reservoir of "Graith," [53] and the "Lit-pig," [54] which stood by every fireside, was as familiar an article of furniture in the cots of the peasantry, as the "cuttie-stool," or the "meal girnel.""
  • "He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run."