north. dial. [Derivation obscure.] A dry measure: = two pecks, or half a bushel; a vessel containing this quantity.
[1299. Acc. Rolls Durham (Surtees), 496. In xlvij qr. ij ken. præbendæ.]
1344–5. Inv. Norham Castle (in Northumbld. Gloss.) Kenine.
[1392. Acc. Rolls Durham (Surtees), 345. Will’s Byng kennen bon.]
c. 1574. Inv. Warkworth Cas., in Hist. Northumbld. (1899), V. 66. A bushell mett, a keninge, ij peckes.
1576. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 410. I gyve … one kennyng of wheat to the poore.
1673. Depos. Cast. York (Surtees), 196. A kening of wheate flower for pyes.
1825. Brockett, Kennen, Kenning, a measure of two pecks.
1893. in Heslop, Northumbld. Gloss.
