Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To channel; groove; chamfer.
- noun An obsolete form of
kennel . - noun A channel; a stream of water; the bed of a stream.
- noun A conduit; a pipe.
- noun The throat.
- noun The lowest part of the edge of a tool, which has received the finishing; the finishing bevel of a knife, ax, or other edged tool.
- noun [⟨ cannel, verb] A style of weaving, making a corded or rep tissue.
- noun Cinnamon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bituminous
coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But that's no 'what I call cannel, "grumbled Davie, glowering fiercely at the burning coal, as if meditating a fresh attack.
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898
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If it is a shale truck there will be no coal in it, but there occurs among the shale another inflammable rock called cannel, which looks very like ordinary shale but is slightly darker and is known by splitting in parallel lines, like slate.
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Coal gas is made, as you are all aware, by heating coal or cannel, which is the special form of coal most valued for the purpose, on account of the high quality of gas it produces in cylindrical fireclay retorts.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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Then he'd tak a cannel an goa to whear th 'rat had been last seen, an all th' lasses followin at a distance.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Dis tyem, plez seel da branze in wif cannel wacks, dat shud hole em daon.
7 out ov 7 kittehs - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Speculation are they have been shot & killed after wards they were burned & throne in ponds, man hole & cannel.
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But it also should be shown, UNCUT, on a cable cannel (ala The Reagans).
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Iz cause ewe iz quik and nimbol lik dis cannel-hopper?
See? Ders bibul abowt kittehs. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Dhaka have lots of cannel, pond, some river but capture by the muscle man and no government recover it.
Rain fall, Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh is under water. 2008
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But these men do feign, to make things dear and of great price; but as the sooth meaneth, cannel groweth among the Trogodites in the little Ethiopia, and cometh by long space of the sea in ships to the haven of Gelenites.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
bilby commented on the word cannel
For the softened light and the homelike air—
The low luxurious cannel fire—
The padded ease of my chosen chair—
The devoted love that discounts desire—
I sometimes think, when Twelve is struck
By the clock on the mantel, tinkling clear,
I would take—and thank the gods for the luck—
One single hour with the boys and the beer.
- Henry Bunner, 'Wed'.
September 14, 2009