| 释义 |
shiften, v. Obs. exc. dial. (E. Anglian).|ˈʃɪftən|
[f. shift v. + -en5.]
trans. To remove (a thing) from one place to another; to change (one's clothes or garments). Also in knitting (see quot. a 1825).
1544T. Phaer Pestilence (1553) N viij, It is good for him to shiften his bedde out of one chamber into another. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Shiften. 1. To change linen. 2. To shift stitches from one pin to another in knitting.
Hence ˈshiftening vbl. n., a change of linen.
1676in G. N. Godwin Bits about Bergholt (1874) 115 Linnen to make shiftnings for the poor. 1691Ibid., That the shiftnings be cut out at Mr. Robert Woodgate's. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia II. 297 A poor woman begs of the overseer, to give her boy, who is going out to service ‘only a shiftening, two of each sort, one on and one off’. |