Meaning of grunsel | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of groundsill (“threshold”).

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim'd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own⟳ Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat […]”

“South beside the altar's ledge Fair Zenild drew her knife North upon the grunsel edge Sir Schinnild lost his life.”

“Basked in the sun, or plunged into thy stream's [1.20] Alternate, all a summer's day, or coursed Over the sandy fields, and dashed the flowers Of yellow grunsel […]”

“Travelled for some miles along the open⟳ country, which was all without hedgerows, sometimes arable, sometimes moorish, and often whole tracts covered with grunsel.”

“If thou return⟳ not, Gammer o'er her pail evermore the petlings, with sad brow, Will look⟳ for thee upon the holly bough, Where thou didst chirp thy signal note⟳, ere on The lowly grunsel thou didst light⟳ […]”

“Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut⟳ Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]”

“"Yes; Messrs. So-and-so lets me go in their grounds and get⟳ the bird-seed. Yer see⟳, I got grun'sel here, and plantain and chick-weed"”

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