单词 | cruck |
释义 | † cruckn.1 Obsolete. A pail or can. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > bucket or pail > [noun] stopc725 amberOE skeelc1330 pail1341 bucketa1382 stoup1397 eshin1547 whinnock1555 bowk1663 cruck1688 noggin1843 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 181/2 For keeping of Swine..Crucks, or Cans, to carry their Meat and Draff in. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 335/1 Of some Milk-Maids..I have heard..a Milk Pail called..a Cruck. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). cruckn.2 One of a pair of curved timbers, forming with other pairs the framework of a house; = crock n.5 Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam pan1284 roof-tree1321 wiverc1325 sile1338 wind-beam1374 bindbalkc1425 trave1432 purlin1439 side-waver1451 wind-balk1532 roof beam1551 post1567 crock1570 spercil1570 collar-beam1659 camber1679 top-beam1679 camber-beam1721 jack rafter1736 hammer-beam1823 tie-beam1823 spar-piece1842 viga1844 collar1858 spanner1862 cruck1898 1898 S. O. Addy Evol. Eng. House ii. 17 A building erected in this way is now said to be ‘built on crucks’. 1934 Archit. Rev. 75 214/2 The foreign prototypes of the English ‘cruck’ house. 1948 J. Walton in Antiquity XXII. 179 The development of the cruck framework. 1948 J. Walton in Antiquity XXII. 179 The cruck buildings of Northern England. 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iv. xi. 170 Two arched or slanting timbers, called crucks, or crutches,..form each of the gable-ends, and support the roof-tree. 1970 H. Braun Parish Churches viii. 101 The great halls of the Anglo-Saxons were formed of lines of wide timber arches called ‘crucks’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11688n.21898 |
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