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Vinony

journal

noun

  1. written medium
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/ / /ˈd͡ʒɜːnəl/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (whence modern French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

  1. Daily.

    “[…]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].”

noun

Etymology: Unknown, apparently of Scots origin. Perhaps from chirnel, from English kernel (“lump in the flesh”), owing to resemblance in shape.

  1. the part of a rotating shaft or axle that rests on the bearing

verb

Etymology: Unknown, apparently of Scots origin. Perhaps from chirnel, from English kernel (“lump in the flesh”), owing to resemblance in shape.

  1. To insert (a shaft, an axle, etc.) into a journal bearing.

    “In a harvester binder having a hollow shaft journalled at right angles to the main axle and driving motion from the main driving wheel, a spindle journalled within the hollow shaft and having the needle attached to one of its ends[…]”

    “The cranks are placed upon posts, rafts, or boats in the stream, and journalled at the water-line, thus keeping one-half of the paddle-surface in action, while the common floating-wheel, or current-wheel, only keeps one[…]”