▪ I. † ˈcarnel Obs.
Also 4 karnel.
[a. ONF. carnel (Cotgr. carneau), var. of kernel, in OF. crenel: see kernel.]
An early variant of the word kernel, crenel, battlement, embrasure.
| c 1320 Cast. Loue 695 Þe carnels so stondeþ vp-riht, Wel i-planed and feir i-diht. c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1382 With koynt carneles aboue, coruen ful clene. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1035 Þey wyþynne stode in karneles, Wyþ arblastes schotten ageyn quarels. c 1340 Cursor M. (Trin. & Laud MSS.) Þis castel..with carneles is hit set ful wele. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vi. 78 Þe carnels beþ of Cristendom..brutaget with þe bileeue. |
▪ II. carnel
obs. f. kernel (of fruit).
▪ III. [carnel, carnel-work
error for caruel, carvel, carvel-work, in Phillips, whence copied by Blount, Harris, Bailey, Chambers, Webster, etc.
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