| 释义 |
rams Now only dial.|ræmz|
Forms: 1 hramsa, -se, (hromsa, ramese), 5 rammys, pl. ramsis, -zys, 6 ram(m)es, 8–9 rams, 9 Sc. ramsh.
[OE. hramsa, -se = MLG. ramese, G. rams (with many dial. variants: see Grimm), Da., Sw., and Norw. dial. rams (Sw. rams-lök), cognate with OIr. crem (Ir. and Gael. creamh, W. craf), Lith. kermùszė, Russ. cheremsha wild garlic, Gr. κρόµυον onion.]
Wild garlic, ramsons.
Some mod. dialects treat rams as a pl. form, with sing. ram or rame. See also ramps, ramsey, ramson.
a700Epinal Gloss. 59 Actula (accitula), hramsa [Corpus hromsa]. 10..Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 296/3 Acetula, ramese. c1440Promp. Parv. 422/2 Ramzys, herbe (H. ramsis, K., S. rammys), affodyllus. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 10 The third kinde [of garlick] is called in latin Allium vrsinum, and in english Ramsey, or bucrames or rames. 1551― Herbal i. (1568) B v, The third kynd is called in Englysh rammes. a1796Pegge Derbicisms Ser. ii. Rams, rampions [? ramsons]. 1818Trans. Antiq. Soc. Scotl. II. 70 On these hills [P. of Monivaird] is found a mountain leek, or ramsh, as it is here named. 1876Whitby Gloss., Rams, wild garlic, flavouring the cow's milk that eats it. |