kemelin

English

Etymology

Compare English dialect kemlin, kimlin, kimmel, "a salting tub, any tub", kembing (“a brewing tub”), German Kumme (“bowl, basin”), Welsh cymman (“a tub, brewing tub”). All of these are probably related to Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl”).

Noun

kemelin (plural kemelins)

1. (obsolete) A tub; a brewer's vessel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kemelin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)