noun
Meaning 1
Hummel figurine
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Standard Lemma guide
Hummel
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Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhʌm(ə)l/
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rhymes with -ʌməl
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CMU ARPABET: HH AH1 M AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns.
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Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, also, attributive
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noun
Meaning 3
Especially in hummel corn: grain that lacks awns (beards or bristles), or has had its awns removed (barley, oats, etc.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive
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verb
Meaning 4
Of an animal: to remove the horns; to poll.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To separate (barley, oats, etc.) from the awns.
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Usage: transitive
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History
Etymology
Probably from Middle English hamelen (“to maim, mutilate; to cut short”), from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“hornless; mutilated”). Cognate with Dutch hamel (“wether”), English hamble, Low German hommel, hummel (“an animal lacking horns”), humlich, dialectal hommlich (“lacking horns”), Bavarian humlet (“lacking horns”), German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to maim, mutilate”). OxfordDictionaries.com suggests that the “ear of grain with its awns removed” sense preceded the “animal without antlers or horns” sense.