单词 | churn-staff |
释义 | churn-staffn. 1. A staff or rod used for agitating or ‘dashing’ the cream or milk in a standing churn. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > churning butter > churning-staff 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). ΚΠ 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). < n.?a1500 |
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