kenning
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kenning englanniksi
(RQ:Smith Generall Historie). 1585.|book=1|page=5|passage=Touching the moſt remarkeable things of the Country and our proceeding from the 17 of ''Auguſt'' 1585. till the 18. of ''Iune'' 1586. we made ''Colony|Roanoack'' our habitation. The vtmoſt of our diſcouery Southward was ''(w)'' as we eſteemed 80. leagues from ''Roanoacke''. The paſſage from thence was thought a broad ſound within the maine, being without kenning of land, yet full of flats and ſhoulds that our Pinnaſſe could not paſſe, (..)
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(RQ:Scott Canongate)
The range or extent of vision, ''especially'' at sea; a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.
(quote-book). Talbot (scribe)|Robert Talbot’s Annotations upon It|location=Oxford|publisher=Printed at the Theater for the publisher|year=1711|volume=III|page=7|pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/itineraryjohnle08heargoogpage/n21/mode/1up|oclc=931133609|passage=''of Scilly|Scylley'' is a Kenning, that is to ſay about an xx. Miles from the very Weſteſte Point of ''Cornewaulle''.
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(quote-book); Trübner|Trübner & Co., (w); ...|year=1876|volume=IV|section=paragraph XVIII|page=369|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CnxpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA369|oclc=492928582|passage=If a person hires a ship and loads her or not entirely, and wishes to unload her, before she sets sail, he shall pay half the ship’s freight. But if the ship has sailed a kenning’s way seawards, he shall pay the shipmaster his full freight. ''Footnote'': ''kenning'' (..) This phrase is applied in the Rutter of the Sea to signify the distance from one headland to another in sight. Vol. I., p. 115.
As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.
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(RQ:Stevenson Catriona)
(infl of).
A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.
(senseid) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (English or Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.
(quote-journal) would thoroughly dispose of alliteration as chief factor in the kenning-process.
(quote-journal), but this is over-zealous, since there are ample parallels for such braiding of kenning elements. Finnbogi interprets the kenning 'ǫrbeiðanda bǫðvar jǫkla' contextually, to mean 'the one who provoked the warrior into drawing his sword' (''Orkneyinga saga'', 202).
A measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.
(quote-book)&93;|title=Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part II|series=The Publications of the (w)|seriesvolume=XXXVIII|location=Durham|publisher=Published for the Society by George Andrews, Durham; London: Whittaker and Co., 13 (w); T. and W. Boone, 29 Street|New Bond Street; Edinburgh: (publishing house)|Blackwood and Sons|year=1585–1586 January 18|year_published=1860|page=132|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qy48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA132|oclc=931289584|passage=''In the hall.'' One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.
(quote-book) After this conversation, Mr. Hepple served him with a kenning of oats, which was a much greater quantity than he usually gave on such occasions.
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