Kenning

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Sight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.

   “"Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there, my friend," answered Robin, with composure; "it is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things." / "I wish there was a summat to eat up their drovers," said another; "a plain Englishman canna make bread without a kenning of them."”

2. isim The range or extent of vision, especially at sea; (by extension) a marine measure of approximately twenty miles.

   “Scylley is a Kenning, that is to ſay about an xx. Miles from the very Weſteſte Point of Cornewaulle.”

3. isim As little as one can discriminate or recognize; a small portion, a little.

   “put in a kenning of salt”

4. fiil present participle and gerund of ken.
5. isim A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula.

   “The ſtreine or kenning of the egge.”

6. isim A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.

   “[A]s we are all aware, the Skalds used all sorts of kennings from Jewels, Gold, Silver, &c., to betoken Women, &c. Gold is called "The Sea's Blink (Blik)", and so on, and a female is "Gold's Mistress", "The Goddess of the Golden Jewel", and so forth.”

7. isim A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity.

   “In the hall. One large table, with frame. 10s. ij cobbordes 8s. j fourme, j chaire, and j kenninge measure, 12d.”

8. özel isim A surname.