Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A channel; a stream of water; the bed of a stream.
- n. A conduit; a pipe.
- n. The throat.
- n. 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.
- n. [⟨ cannel, verb] A style of weaving, making a corded or rep tissue.
- To channel; groove; chamfer.
- n. Cinnamon.
- n. An obsolete form of kennel.
Wiktionary
- n. A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
Etymologies
- Perhaps short for cannel coal, dialectal variant of candle coal (from its bright flame). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“Speculation are they have been shot & killed after wards they were burned & throne in ponds, man hole & cannel.”
“But it also should be shown, UNCUT, on a cable cannel (ala The Reagans).”
“Iz cause ewe iz quik and nimbol lik dis cannel-hopper?”
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“Dis tyem, plez seel da branze in wif cannel wacks, dat shud hole em daon.”
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“Dhaka have lots of cannel, pond, some river but capture by the muscle man and no government recover it.”
“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.”
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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'. Sep 13, 2009