| 单词 | clap and hopper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclap and hopper a. The clapper of a mill; = clack n. 3, clapper n.1 1. clap and hopper (Scottish): ‘the symbols of investiture in the property of a mill’ (Jamieson). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > clapper mill clapperc1200 clap?c1225 mill-clack1264 clapper1340 clackc1440 clacket1594 knap1622 clacker1636 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Þe twa cheken beoð twa grind stanes þe tunge is þe cleppe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 79 Clappe, or clakke of a mylle, taratantara. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 205/2 Clappe of a myll, clacquet de movlin. 1759 J. Lauder Decisions I. 432 (Jam.) A mill is distinctum tenementum, and requires delivery of the clap and happer. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 144 The heapet happer's ebbing still, And still the clap plays clatter. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. v. 107 He [sc. the miller] maun wait on clap and hopper, as they say. < as lemmas |
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