skemill

skemill
m. foot-stool.
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m. [Engl. shambles; Scot. skamyll, a bench; Dan. skammel = a foot-stool]:—prop. a bench, whence a foot-stool; see fót-skemill.

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  • Schemel — Sm std. (9. Jh., runisch ksamella 5. Jh.), mhd. schemel, schamel, ahd. scamel, scamal, scamil, mndd. schemel, mndl. schamel, schemel Entlehnung. Wie ae. sceamul, anord. skemill entlehnt aus l. scamillus Bänkchen (zu l. scamnum n. Bank ).… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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