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单词 shrip
释义 I. shrip, n. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 schrippe, 4 shrippe, 5 s(c)hryppe; sherpe, shyrpe.
[Parallel form to scrip n.1; but the existence of the two forms is difficult to account for. Cf., however, Merovingian L. schirpa, scirpa, and schrippa, beside scrippum, OF. escherpe, eschirpe.]
= scrip n.1
c1290S. Eng. Leg. 41/259 A coppe of seluer stilleliche þis luþere Man gan bringue And dude in heore schrippe softeliche.1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vi. 26 Sauh I neuer Palmere with pyk ne with schrippe [v.r. scrip] Such a seint seche bote now in þis place.c1384Chaucer H. Fame 2123 (Fairf.), Pilgrimes With shrippes bret ful of lesenges.a1400Octouian 1357 Pyk and palm, schryppe and slaueyn He dyghte hym as palmer, queynt of gyn.1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 6220 Towchyng shyrpe & bordoun.1568Turner Herbal iii. 14 A shepehardes pouch or shrippe.
II. shrip, v. Now dial.|ʃrɪp|
Also shirp.
[App. f. root *skrep-: see screpe, scrape, shrape vbs. Cf. OE. (ᵹe)sceorpan str. vb., to shave, shred (whence perh. the form shirp); also G. schripfen, schrepfen, schrupfen, dial. to cut off the tips of a growing plant.]
trans. To shave, shred; to clip, lop, prune, trim.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. K 5 b, Put a brimstone-match in the one end beeing slit, and the other end beeing shript sticke into the side of the hoale.1664Evelyn Sylva 20 Being suffered to dry in the Sun upon the Branches, and the spray shrip'd off about the decrease in August.Ibid. 103 Brush⁓wood which is shripped off from the branches of Copse⁓wood.Ibid. (1776) 155 Such as they reserve for spears in Spain, they keep shriped up close to the stem.1881Isle of Wight Gloss., Shrip, to clip a hedge, or cut hair close.1893Wilts. Gloss., Shirp, or Shrip, (1) ‘to shirp off’, to shred or cut off a little of anything; (2) ‘to shrip up’, to shroud up the lower boughs of roadside trees, to cut off the side twigs of a hedge or bush.
Hence ˈshripping vbl. n.
1634Wither Embl. iv. ix, I have seene such twiggs, afford them shade, By whom they were the meanest shrippings made, Of all the Wood.1910Spectator 16 Apr. 619/1 His [sc. a hedger's] work in some shires is known as ‘shripping’.
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