单词 | dung pot |
释义 | dung potn. 1. A basket or tub for carrying dung, earth, etc.; (in later use) esp. either of a pair of these, hung from the sides of the packsaddle of a horse or other animal, and often made with a hinged bottom by which the contents may be emptied out. Now historical.After the 18th cent., chiefly with reference to use in the south-west of England, Wales, and Ireland, especially from areas in which the terrain or condition of the roads made transporting dung and other heavy loads by cart impractical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > tub > [noun] > carried by pack-horse dung pot1388 1388–9 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 58 ij wylpottis..j dungpot. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Scirpea, a dunge potte or colne made with roddes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique x. 50 In Nouember..make hiues for bees, panniers, dung-pots, and baskets of osier. 1615 J. Swetnam Araignm. Lewde, Idle, Froward, & Vnconstant Women 61 Thou shalt haue a brended slut like a Hell-hagge, with a paire of pappes like a paire of dung-pots. 1756 W. Ellis Compl. Planter & Cyderist i. 38 Earth..may be carried in wooden Dung-pots, which are shaped like Churns, and hang on each Side a Horse... These Dung-pots are emptied by unpinning the bottom Board. 1819 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 25 Sept. (advt.) 1 pair of dung pots, pack saddle, &c. 1875 Baily's Monthly Mag. Mar. 326 The Devonshire packhorse—an active compact, and sturdy animal as ever carried a pair of dung-pots, crooks, or brandy-kegs up the face of a precipice. 1962 J. G. Jenkins Agric. Transport in Wales iv. 48 For dung carrying..each animal was equipped with a pair of coopered vessels, known as dung pots. 1998 Past & Present No. 159. 63 Everywhere basketwork panniers were slung onto pack horses: in Devon ‘dung pots’ with trapdoors at the bottom were used in pairs to carry muck out to the fields. 2. A cart used for carrying dung, earth, etc.; (in later use) esp. a heavy cart, typically drawn by three horses, and with a tilting body from which the contents can be tipped out. Cf. dung putt n. Now English regional (south-western). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > for dung dung putt1313 dung cartc1405 tumbril1440 dung pot1575 tumbler1673 mud-cart1749 tumbler-cart1880 1575–6 Act 18 Elizabeth I c. 10 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 620 Everye..person..shalbe charged to finde..one Carte..Tumbrell Dounge Pott or Courte..for..repayringe of the Highe wayes. 1662 Act 14 Charles II c. 2 in Statutes of Realm (1819) V. 355 The Rakers [and] Scavengers..shall bring..Carts Dung pots or other fitting carriages into all streets..that all persons..may bring forth theire respective Ashes Dust Dirt Filth and Soil. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 171 A horse wch draws a sort of carriage, the wheeles like a Dung-pott. 1752 Covent-Garden Jrnl. 15 Feb. Since this sportive Humour is descended among the Farmers, some Races between Dung-Pots are shortly expected. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 617 The horses which south-country farmers still string on their..three-horse dung-carts, or dung-pots, as they are called. 1859 Isle of Wight Observer 12 Mar. There is a certain class of minds which travel like the old dung-pots upon the highways, up to their axletrees in ruts. 1956 Geogr. Mag. Sept. 260/1 The Bedfordshire ‘dung pot’ was a primitive sort of tipping cart, the shafts being fixed to the axle. It was in fairly general use about the countryside. 1967 H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin Surv. Eng. Dial. IV. i. 154 Q[uestion] What do you call this [sc. a farmcart; interviewees were shown a drawing of a tip-cart]?..[Dorset] pɒt, dʌŋpɒt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1388 |
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