单词 | dading |
释义 | dadingn. Now archaic and rare (chiefly English regional (northern and midlands) in later use). I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating a lead or other apparatus used to guide a young child when walking, as †dading-sleeve, dading-string. Frequently in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1675 H. Teonge Diary 20 June (1825) 13 His sonn..with his mayd to leade him by his dading sleeves. 1702 E. Baynard in J. Floyer Anc. Ψυχρολουσία Revived Postscr. Let. 220 They could never be Gull'd, and led by the Dading-strings, but by People of as little depth as themselves. 1774 J. Wright Let. 22 May in Reliquary Jan. (1864) 182 We are no better than infants, and ought to wear daiding strings. ?1857 J. Scholes Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt i. 4 Awve livt e Smobridge evvur sin awre e dadin-strengs. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Dading-strings, by which a child is held up when learning to walk. 1999 S. Davies Impassioned Clay 84 I replied, ‘Indeed, but their minds are weaker & must be led with dading-strings like infants.’ 2. English regional (Lancashire). In plural, in form dadins. Leading strings or reins used to guide a young child when walking. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > device protecting babies or infants leading-string1677 dading1865 reins1878 baby harness1899 1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 259 He's nobbut like a chilt in its dadins. 1867 B. Brierley Traddlepin Fold 182 The elder matrons of the society..subscribed for it when most of the junior members were in their ‘dadins’ (leading-strings). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1675 |
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