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单词 clave
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claven.1

Etymology: < Latin clāva knotty stick, club, scion.
Obsolete.
A knotty branch, scion, graft.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > produced by or used for grafting
clavec1420
grafter1600
graftlinga1618
family tree1918
bud-graft1930
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
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graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
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graft1483
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slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 415 In March orenge is sette in sondry wyse..in bough, in branches and in clave.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

claven.2

Etymology: ? < Latin clāvis key, bolt.
Obsolete.
1.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xl The leaves of the dores belonging to this temple..stood foure yeres glewed in the clave [L. in glutinis compagine].
2. Nautical. (See quots.)
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 151 Clave, a stool..supported by 4 legs; the top 6 feet long, 2 or 3 feet wide..in which the shells are set up with wedges for making the sheave-holes.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 153 The blocks are..jambed up..with wedges in a clave.
3. (See quot. 1847-78)
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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Clave, the handle, or the part of a pair of small balances by which they are lifted up in weighing anything.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

claven.3

Brit. /kleɪv/, /klɑːv/, U.S. /kleɪv/
Forms: Also clavé /ˈklaveɪ//ˈklɑːveɪ/.
Etymology: American Spanish, < Spanish clave keystone, < Latin clāvis key.
Music.
One of a pair of round sticks of hard wood, struck against each other when used in ‘Latin-American’ music. Usually in plural.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > castanets
snapper1605
castanet1647
knocker1648
crotaloa1682
knacker1691
crotalum1728
snip-snap1736
jawbone1844
crotal1850
clave1928
crotale1938
1928 Vanity Fair Nov. 72 A fashionable evening event along the Havana water-front is a concert by black boys with their primitive instruments, the bongó..and claves.
1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz vii. 166 The Claves are two cylindrical sticks made of a special kind of wood found in Cuba. One of the claves is held in the cupped left hand and struck with the clave in the right hand, thus producing a hollow musical tone.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xix. 248 The traditional ‘off-center’ accents of the clavés, or wooden sticks, that make a penetrating hollow sound when struck together.
1961 J. Blades in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xiv. 348 The relentless clicking of the claves.
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