carnellus

1 carnellus, ~um [cf. OF carnel] , crenel, battlement (or space between battlements) on wall; b (in ‘pavilion’ built on ship). † a1140 concedo quod abbas ‥ faciat chernellos super murum ecclesie sue, ita tamen quod murum illum non elevet plus quam modo est preter solos chernellos (Ch.) Elmh. Cant. 368 (= Regesta III 160); 1223 reparari facias murum et kernellos et hurdeicium castri nostri de Walingeford’, que per inpulsionem venti prostrata sunt Cl 530a; 1242 ij m. quas posuit in obstructione quorundam karnellorum in turri Lond’ Liberate 35 m. 11; 1244 quandam domum ad estagium ccc pedes in longitudine continentem cum kernellis et alea ad kernellos versus Tamisiam ‥ fieri faciat Cl 215; 1250 in barbicana ‥ omnes ~i decasi sunt CalIMisc I p. 30; 1260 kernelli et alure muri castri Ib. p. 89; 1285 prostravit quarnellos muri domini regis (Eyre) DocCOx 205; 1292 in cc liberis petris ad kernellos emptis KR Ac 460/29 m. B2; 1299 in turellis et kirnellis ‥ castri reparandis per loca KR Mem 72 r. 82; 1304 domum fortem cum cranellis et arqueriis RGasc III 428; 1307 tenet ‥ per servicium tergendi j placeam coram quodam kernello castri domini regis de Launceueton IPM 125/13; 1312 turelli et kernelli defensabiles Cl 95 m. 24; 1312 tenuit ‥ ut de honore de Launceton’ per servicium parandi dim. curnell’ tempore gwerre IPM 28/23; 1313 quendam murum de petra et calce ‥ erexerunt et kernellarunt, per kernella ejusdem muri sagittas et quarellos mittentes Pat 140 m. 5d.; 1326 d de estrichebord’ pro kernell’ KR Mem 103 r. 242d.; 1336 [per servicium reparandi] ij cornelos Cal. IPM VII 708; 1356 custus domorum: ‥ in crestura iij d; in d kernillis j d. ob. Crawley 273; 1445 xvj carnales dicti muri Ac. Chamb. Cant. 140.  b 1342 circa facturam ‥ iiij kirneliorum de carde factorum in iiij angulis ejusdem palicii KR Ac 389/14 m. 3.

2 †carnellus , gobbet of whale-meat. 1221 habere faciatis ad opus nostrum ‥ lx kernellos de graspeis Cl 450a; 1246 c karnellos optime balene Liberate 22 m. 17; 1344 j kern’ de balein, x d. KR Ac 390/11 r. 15d. (cf. LTR Mem 105 r. 157: 1333 circa capcionem ‥ j piscis vocati balayn ‥ salsat’ in dclix peciis vocatis †ker[n]eus).