girnel

Jenny, “when we hae sent awa the haill meal in the ark and the girnel?”

Old Mortality 2004

He was a man without a conscience, and so long as his own ends and the ends of his friends were served, he would never scruple to empty the woman's girnel or toom her last basin, and leave her no morsel of food or drink at the long-run.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

Though she aft lifts the lid o 'her girnel in vain,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

In the county of Aberdeen, in particular, every homestead had its reservoir of "Graith," [53] and the "Lit-pig," [54] which stood by every fireside, was as familiar an article of furniture in the cots of the peasantry, as the "cuttie-stool," or the "meal girnel."

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Men have been lost in the glen in mists so thick that they could plunge their fingers out of sight in it as into a meal girnel; but this mist never came within twenty yards of me.

The Little Minister 1898

Eh, but a happy wuman was she 'at had but to tak her bowl an' gang to the girnel, as I micht tak my pail an 'gang to the wall!

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

The Bishop's girnel was kept the first night by the labours of John Knox, who by exhortation removed such as would violentlie have made irruption.

Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

The morrow following, some of the poor in hope of spoil, and some of Dundee to consider what was done, passed up to the said Abbey of Scone; whereat the Bishop's servants offended began to threaten and speak proudly, and as it was constantly affirmed one of the Bishop's sons stogged through with a rapier one of Dundee because he was looking in at the girnel door.

Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

Bishop's girnel or storehouse, keeping back the rioters by his exhortations, is a curious illustration of this point.

Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862

"And what are we to eat oursells then, father," asked Jenny, "when we hae sent awa the haill meal in the ark and the girnel?"

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801