▪ I. † garnel1 Sc. Obs.
[A form of garner, perhaps influenced by F. grenaille refuse corn: see also girnel.]
A granary or barn.
| 1567 Gen. Assembly in Keith Hist. Affairs Scot. (1734) 589 He shall take no higher Prices than is appointed, nor put up in the Garnell. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 48 Thay cal it, the Commoune Barn or garnel of Abirdine. 1821 Galt Ann. Parish xxxix. 313 He brought in two cargoes to Irville..making for the occasion a garnel of one of the warehouses of the cotton-mill. |
b. attrib., as garnel-house.
| 1663 Inv. Ld. J. Gordon's Furniture, Item, in the garnell house, twelff great Inglisch pewder plaites. |
▪ II. † garnel2 Obs. rare—1.
[? corruption of F. grenaille refuse corn.]
An inferior kind of flour.
| a 1752 Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. (1753) 331 Five bushels Wheat yeilds (sic) about one hundred and three quarters merchantable Flower: the Garnel, or second Flower, pays for Cask and all other Charges. |
▪ III. † garnel3, gernel Obs.
[a. Du. garnaal, dial. garneel = Ger. garneele shrimp; related and synonymous forms are Du. dial. garnaat, Flem. geernaar(t, High German dial. garnat, granat, garner, Belgian and North Eastern F. grenat, OF. guernette; of obscure origin: see Wb. der Nederl. Taal.]
A species of shrimp.
| 1694 Acc. Sev. Late Voy. (1711) i. p. xxiv, Lobsters, Gernels, Star-fish, Mackrel. Ibid. ii. 122 Of the Garnels or Prawns. Ibid. ii. 124 Of the lesser Garnel or Shrimp. |