单词 | charet |
释义 | charetcharetten. Obsolete. A wheeled vehicle or conveyance. a. for persons or goods; a carriage, chariot, cart, wagon, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] carc1320 chara1400 charet?a1400 wagon1542 carry1600 rotan1676 messagerie1777 pillbox1789 bandy1791 Pennsylvania wagon1800 gharry1810 rath1813 vardo1819 rig1831 ?a1400 Chester Pl. (1847) ii. 141 Fower charrettes came anon. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1552 Charottez chokkefulle charegyde with golde. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xxii. 241 In a Charett with 4 Wheles..and 4 or 5 or 6 of the grettest Lordes ryden aboute this charyot. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clv So many wedgys of Golde as shulde charge or lade viii. Charettis. a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 17 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 37 Riche charettes..furnysshed with diuerse auncient old lades. 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 100 It is harder to rule two horses to guide a coach or charret then one. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 16 So Iehu rode in a charet . View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures iii. §2. 7 This Imposter rode up and doun the Town in a triumphant Charret. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xlv. 4 The Kings of the earth..have their Charrets drawn by other horses. b. A war-chariot. (In biblical or classical use.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > war chariot charet1535 chariot1581 wagon1591 scythe-chariot1695 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. xi. F And the kinge of the north..shall come agaynst him with charettes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. vi. 2 In the first charet were reade horse. 1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xiv. 7 Hee tooke sixe hundred chosen charets . View more context for this quotation 1650 R. Gell Αγγελοκρατια Θεου 20 There were seen in the air..charets and armed men. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads iii. 28 Arm'd from his charret to the ground leapt he. Compounds C1. General attributive. charet-city n. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. i. 14 A thousand and foure hundred charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, which he placed in the charet-cities . View more context for this quotation charet-driver n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of a chariot carterc1374 charioteer1382 charet-man1535 chariot-man1577 coachman1582 charet-driver1591 wagoner1594 chareter1610 jockeya1719 chariot-driver1769 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 108 Vitellius..builded vp stables for charet driuers. charet-horse n. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. viii. 4 Dauid houghed all the charet horses . View more context for this quotation charet-wheel n. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vii. 33 Charet wheele . View more context for this quotation C2. charet-man n. = charioteer n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of a chariot carterc1374 charioteer1382 charet-man1535 chariot-man1577 coachman1582 charet-driver1591 wagoner1594 chareter1610 jockeya1719 chariot-driver1769 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings ix. 18 The charetman rode to mete them. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 38/1 in Chron. I And those Charetmen by exercise and custome were so cunning. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xviii. 33 Hee sayd to his charetman, Turne thine hand. View more context for this quotation Draft additions March 2007 Chiefly North American (originally Architecture). A period of intense (group) work, typically undertaken in order to meet a deadline. Also: a collaborative workshop focusing on a particular problem or project; (Town Planning) a public meeting or conference devoted to discussion of a proposed community building project. [Probably originally with reference to the former custom among French architecture students of using a cart to carry their work on the day of an exhibition: see Trésor de la Langue Française at charrette.] ΚΠ 1959 Jrnl. Archit. Educ. 14 34/1 I was on many a charette. I got to appreciate the wonderful spirit..that seems to be present in architectural schools. 1969 Panama City (Florida) Herald 14 Aug. 11 a This was the second charrette to be conducted in Florida and the first where education specifications were written for elementary, middle and high schools simultaneously. 1977 J. Draper in S. Kostof Architect 223 Tales of rowdy parties, mad charettes, and lively traditions filled their reminiscences. 1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 31/3 I missed the ‘Community Planning Weekend’ that had been organised along the lines of an American ‘Charette’ by community architects. 1998 Urbanite Nov. 6/3 My students start with weekend sessions and continue to a full-week charrette during the week preceding the actual local competition. 2000 Sci. Amer. Mar. 17/2 On the second day of the charette, a representative..disputed..[the] description of the planned train line as a light-rail link among neighborhoods. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.?a1400 |
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