Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1721-1748
[0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
CANNEL, n.2 Also canele. Cinnamon (Abd. 1773 Weekly Mag. (7 Jan.) 40); in pl. sticks or strips of cinnamon bark. Comb. cannel gill, a gill of a kind of cordial or toddy of spirits flavoured with cinnamon.Sc. 1721 in Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) II. 71:
Strains, that warm our Hearts like Cannel Gill. Sc. 1748 G. W. J. Omond Arniston Memoirs (1887) 108:
Apples, with canels.
[O.Sc. cannel, c.1489, Mid.Eng. canele, O.Fr. canelle, id. The word became obs. in Eng. in the 17th c.]
You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Cannel n.2". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 7 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/snd00088273>
