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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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¶VENNEL, n.² Altered form of funnel.Abd. 1929 W. Littlejohn Bch. Cottar Stories 39:
An auld woman that smoked more fae a tobacco vennel than the cow was ever fit for the use of man.