Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An image of corn, dressed like a doll, carried in triumph amid much rejoicing on the last day of reaping; a kern-baby.
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Examples
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And efter we'd had wer suppers, we got agate o 'dancin' i 't' leet o 't' harvist-moon; and reet i 't' middle o 't' dancers was t 'mell-doll. "
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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A bonnie seet was t 'mell-doll, an' if I could nobbut set een on yan agean, I'd be happy for a twelmonth. "
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
hernesheir commented on the word mell-doll
A.k.a. kirn-doll or kern-doll.
March 4, 2010