Noun: hemmel
| Singular | hemmel |
| Plural | hemmels |
Sample Sentences
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Cattle kept in hemmels should always have their food may be stated that the roofs of all the buildings should given to them in the sheds [1864 June, John Ewart, “The Profitable Management of Farms in the Vicinity of Large Towns”, in The Farmer's Magazine:]
Nouns inflected like hemmel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Scots hemmel, hammel, dialectal English hemble (“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied to Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy”), German Himmel. Compare English heaven. See: Dutch Nouns '
hemel', German Nouns '
Himmel', English Nouns '
heaven'.