Inglenook

Quick meaning: Inglenook is a noun meaning (originally Scotland, architecture, chiefly historical) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.

Meaning

(originally Scotland, architecture, chiefly historical) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace; a chimney corner.

Example Sentences

The ingle-nook ſupplies the ſimmer-fields, / An' aft as mony gleefu' maments yields.

I ſat me in the ingle nook, / And joked wi my luver, / But a' the jokes that I cou'd crack, / The deel a ane could muve her.

Alice was removed to the residence of the older Noland, where she was welcomed with a rough but honest kindness, and old Margaret was installed in the ingle nook.

[O]ne [chair], distinguished by capacious arms, a high stuffed back, and red cushions, was placed close to the ingle nook, the accustomed seat of the father of the family.

Word Forms

• inglenooks
• ingle nook
• ingle-nook

Synonyms for inglenook

Depending on context, synonyms include chimney corner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chimney corner, ingle nook, nook, corner, nookery, hirn.

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