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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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HENSHELSTANE, n. Also henchel-, hauncelman- [ < hainchle-bane, see etym. note below] (Sc. 1949 A. R. Daniel Bakers' Dictionary); henshin-, hinchin-; hencher-; hinch- (Ayr.⁸ 1957). The stone shelf or slab before a baker's oven-door, used to facilitate the sliding of trays, pans, etc. into the oven or the squaring up of loaves about to be baked (Ayr. c.1900, hencher-stane; Abd. (hinchin-steen), Gsw. (-stane) 1957).Sc. 1946 per J. H. Macadam:
The shaped loaves received a final square up before being put upon the peel to be run into the oven. In the east of Scotland the stone slab on which the loaves were squared up was called a henshin-stone, and, in the West of Scotland, henshelstone. It appears to have been fairly well known forty or fifty years ago, but I think it is probably considerably out of use now.