| 释义 |
yelve, n. dial.|jɛlv|
Also 7 yelf, 9 yilve.
[Metathetic f. ME. ȝevel:—OE. ᵹeafel fork, more directly represented by dial. yeevil, evil n.3, in use along the Celtic border from Cheshire to Cornwall.]
A dung- or garden-fork. Hence yelve v., to use a yelve.
[c1000ælfric Hom. I. 430 Hi..hine ufan mid isenum ᵹeaflum ðydon. a1100Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 241/36 Forcelle, ᵹæfle, dictae quod frumenta celluntur, i. commouentur. a1100Gerefa in Anglia IX. 263 He sceal fela tola..habban..bærwan, besman, race, ᵹeafle. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxx[ii]. (Tollem. MS.), Hey..is houe, turnid and wende with pikes, ȝeuels [ed. 1495 forkees] and rakes. ]1688Holme Armoury ii. 173/2 Yelf or Yelve, an Iron with three fork ends, by which Dung is taken from the Beast, and the house made clean. Ibid. iii. 337/1 A Yelve Iron with two Ends. Ibid., With the same Forke or Yelve, (or Evill, as some call it). 1817Wilbraham Gloss. Cheshire (1818) 32 Yelve, to dig chiefly with the yelve. 1841Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 622 Yilve, a dung fork, an evil, as we more commonly call it. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Yelve..a garden-fork. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Yelve, a potato fork... Yelve, v. to dig, chiefly with the yelve. |