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单词 churn-staff
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churn-staffn.

Etymology: < churn n. + staff n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchurn-staff.
1. A staff or rod used for agitating or ‘dashing’ the cream or milk in a standing churn.
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churn-staff?a1500
churning-staff1768
dash1796
plunger1838
churning-stick1840
churn-dasher1845
dasher1847
churn-dash1860
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 793/22 Hoc coagulatorium, a scharnstafe.
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. vi. 146 The lightness of the Churm-staff.
1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. iii. 51 Employed in milking the cows, in twirling the mop or churn-staff.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Churn-staff, the dasher of an old-fashioned ‘up and down’ churn.
2. Local name of Sun-Spurge ( Euphorbia helioscopia) and of Yellow Toadflax ( Linaria vulgaris).
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1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 36/1 Sun Spurge..Churn Staff.
1879 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants (ed. 3) 47.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Churnstaff, (1) Euphorbia Helioscopia, (2) Linaria vulgaris.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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