单词 | clavel |
释义 | claveln. Obsolete exc. dialect. The lintel over a fireplace; esp. a beam of wood so used, the mantel. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > beam over mantel1357 balk1432 manteltree1451 mantry1530 clavel1602 chimney-bar1833 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 138 The hewed stones of the windowes, dournes, & clauels, pluct out to serue priuate buildings. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Z The fairest chimney for clauy and ieames that euer I saw. 1754 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 91 The lightning had left a mark quite cross the clavel of the kitchen-chimney. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Clavel, a mantel-piece. West. Called also..clavy. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Would you like to have a arch a-turned, or a clavel? 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) The Holmen Clavel Inn. Compounds clavel-board n. (also clavy-board) , clavel-piece n., clavel-tack = mantelpiece. ΚΠ 1634 J. Winter Let. 18 June in J. P. Baxter Trelawny Papers (1884) 31 The Chimnay..is so large that we Can place our Chittle [sc. kettle] within the Clavell pece. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words at Clavel Called also..clavy-piece. Clavel-tack is, I believe, the shelf over the mantel-piece. 1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 136 Just above the clavy-bwoard Wer father's spurs, an' gun, an' sword. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1602 |
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