† ˈporknell Obs. rare.
[Arbitrary derivative of pork1: cf. cracknel.]
1. One as fat as a pig.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 6368 Polidarius, the porknell, and his pere Machaon, Suet with the xvij [batell]. |
2. Some part of the offal of a sheep.
| 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden 111 No more doth he feed on anie thing when he is at Saffron Walden, but trotters, sheepes porknells, and buttered rootes. |