mistal
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of mistal
C17: of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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So at last, when I'd fmished my milking i' the mistal, I got him to bed, and then I sat misen down by the fire and had a reet good roar.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William
Roger, as they go into the mistal together.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
Bet, Lib, and Maudlin hurry and crowd into the mistal unheedingly.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
She trotted after him through the house and out into the mistal and up the Three Fields.
From The Three Sisters by Sinclair, May
I wouldn' gaw to 'im in t' mistal all amoong t' doong.
From The Three Sisters by Sinclair, May
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