英语词汇“rock-staff”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	rock-staff
释义	▪ I. ˈrock-staff¹ [rock v.¹] Part of the apparatus for working a smith's bellows. 1677Moxon Mech. Exercises i. 2 This Handle is fastened a cross a Rock-staff, which moves between two Cheeks upon two Center-pins, in two Sockets.1831J. Holland Manuf. in Metal I. 177 The bellows occupying the inside, and being worked by a rockstaff from without.1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss., Rock-staff, the lever or long handle by which a blacksmith works his bellows. ▪ II. rock-staff² E. Angl. dial. [rock n.²] A distaff. Also fig., a superstition; a fancy, crotchet; esp. in phr. *an old woman's rock-staff. 1765Compl. Maltster & Brewer p. xxiii, The notion of pease bloom, and weeds being up in the water, is but a meer old woman's rockstaff.a1825R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia* (1830) II. 279 Rock-staff,..a distaff; from which..the wool was spun ‘by twirling a ball below’... ‘An old woman's rockstaff,’ is a contemptuous expression for a silly superstitious fancy.1867N. & Q. 3rd Ser. XI. 215 She is so full of her old woman's rock-staffs.1895P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broad-land ii. xix. 396 There is a curious rockstaff in the marshlands that a viper's slough will draw thorns from your flesh.
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