Also 5 kyr-, 8 kir-. [f. KERNEL sb.1
An OE. cyrnlian is implied in ʓecyrnlude appla (rendering L. mala granata (Napier, O. E. Glosses, 102/3841).]
† 1. intr. To form kernels or seed. Of land: To produce grain or corn. Obs.
1483. Cath. Angl., 204/1. To kyrnelle, granare, granere, granescere, inchoatiuum.
1611. Florio, Inglandulire,… to glandulate, to kernell.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., I. V. vii. (1708), 108. In Staffordshire they sow Garden-Rouncivals in the Fields, and find them to kernel well.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb., 110. This ground kirnelled very fine.
2. trans. To enclose as a kernel in its shell.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., XI. xliv. Though in rough shels our bodies kerneld are Our roof is neat.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., xvii. The lilacs and the woodbines, just crowding forth in little tufts, close kernelling their blossom.
