gəl noun Chiefly British Dialect.
1.
a fire burning in a hearth.
2.
a fireplace; hearth.
Origin:
1500–10; < Scots Gaelic aingeal fire
1500–10; < Scots Gaelic aingeal fire
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| —n | |
| archaic, dialect or a fire in a room or a fireplace | |
| [C16: probably from Scots Gaelic aingeal fire] | |
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Ingle
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
ingle
"fireplace," 1508, from Scot., probably from Gael. aingeal "fire," of uncertain origin.
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