Sĭm'nel, n.

n. [O. Fr. simenel, cake or bread of wheat flour, L. Lat. simenellus, wheat bread, from Lat. simila, the finest wheat flour; whence also N. H. Ger. semmel, O. H. Ger. simelo, semmalo, simila, semala, L. Ger. semel, Dan. simle, Sw. simla, wheat bread.] A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] “Not common bread, but wassel bread, and simnels for his diet.” Fuller.