单词 | castock |
释义 | castockn. Scottish and northern dialect. The stalk or stem of a cabbage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > cabbage > seed, leaf, or stalk of castock1398 wort stockc1450 outside leaf1737 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xxii. (MS.) Men may graffe on a bete stok, as men doþ on a caule stok [1495 caustocke]. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 644 Hoc magudere, calstok. 1483 Cath. Angl. 51 A cale stok, maguderis. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 350 Nat worth a shyttel-cocke, Nat worth a sowre calstocke. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 72 The Killings, Herrings, Castocks. 1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 5 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. As freugh as kail-castacks. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 Gif the custock's sweet or sour, Wi' joctelegs they taste them. 1808–79 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Castock, castack, custoc; often kail-castock. a1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 80 A heart not worth a custock. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. x. 140 Here's a fine custock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1398 |
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