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单词 fitch
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fitchn.1

Brit. /fɪtʃ/, U.S. /fɪtʃ/
Forms: Also 1500s fyȝche, feche, fyche, fiche.
Etymology: < (perhaps through an unrecorded Old French form) Middle Dutch visse, fisse, whence Old French fissel fitchew n.
1. = fitchew n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish
tachec1330
vicec1386
flakec1400
plotc1400
offencec1425
defectc1450
disconformity1505
defection1526
blemish1535
fitch1550
blot1578
flaw1604
tainta1616
mulct1632
smitch1638
scarring1816
out1886
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) > mustela putorius (polecat)
polecat1320
foumartc1400
fitchew1418
fethok1424
martretc1450
boussyng1481
flewen1494
fitchet1535
fitch1550
fitchock1616
thummart1696
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > typical examples of
little fingerc1300
pear1340
hair1377
flea1388
a pin's head (also point)c1450
fitch1550
mouse1584
minnow1596
the pestle of a lark1598
nutshella1616
pinhead1662
pinpoint1670
rope yarn1751
bee's knee1797
peanut1864
postage stamp1881
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Lv We haue Marterns..Otters, Fitches, Squerelles..with other kyndes of Furres.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 219 They say they stinke like an Iltis, that is a fitch or Poul-cat.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 49 Fitch..The part of use taken from them is the skinne.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fitch, a Polecat.
2. The fur or hair of a polecat.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of polecat or weasel
fitchewc1394
foinc1394
fitch1502
Manchurian ermine1957
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) > mustela putorius (polecat) > fur of
fitchewc1394
fitch1502
1502 Will of Sowerby (Somerset Ho.) [Furred with] fyȝches.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Fitch, the furre of the Polecat.
1879 M. M. Backus in Encycl. Brit. IX. 838/1 Fitch Size about that of the American mink.
1884 J. C. Staples in Girl's Own Paper 8 Mar. 354/3 Some [brushes] are made of sable, fitch, and other hairs.
3. A brush made of the hair of a fitchew or polecat; also, a small brush made of hog's hair.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > brush > types of
pencila1350
calaber pencil1583
washing-brush1585
softener1756
hair-pencil1763
camel('s) hair pencil1771
pound brush1780
dabberc1790
varnishing brush1825
writer1825
red sable1859
sweetener1859
varnish brush1859
fitch1873
sable-brush1873
wash-brush1873
Poona brush1875
hake1882
rigger1883
airbrush1884
liner1886
sable1891
stippler1891
aerograph1898
mop brush1904
filbert brush1950
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 106 The smallest hog~hair brushes are called fitches.
4. attributive, as fitch-brush, fitch-hair.
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1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 114 Can you describe it? No, not if pens were fitch-brushes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fitchn.2

Brit. /fɪtʃ/, U.S. /fɪtʃ/
Forms: Also fetch.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
In basket-making, a kind of plait in which two canes or osiers are twisted together in the same direction so as to enclose a crossing weft at each half-turn. Also (more fully fitch-rod), one of the canes so used.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > fitch
fitch1907
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > fitch > part of
fitch-rod1953
1907 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 11 Jan. 190/2 The strokes chiefly used are termed: a slew when two or more rods are woven in together.., a fitch when two are woven alternately one under the other.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 482/2 The ‘fitch’..employed for skeleton work such as cages and waste-paper baskets.
1912 Rep. Cambr. Anthropol. Exped. Torres Straits IV. 64.
1953 A. G. Knock Willow Basket-work (ed. 5) 21 The size of the fitch rods is generally a little smaller than that of the stakes.

Derivatives

fitch v.2
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > basket-making > processes involved in
upset1875
slew1902
fitch1907
slype1910
by-stake1912
rib-rand1959
1907 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 11 Jan. 190/2 Some fitched basket chairs..are nearly 3,000 years old.
1953 A. G. Knock Willow Basket-work (ed. 5) 21 When a round of fitching is completed, the remainder of the two rods may be worked out as a pair.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fitchv.1

Brit. /fɪtʃ/, U.S. /fɪtʃ/, Scottish English /fɪtʃ/
Etymology: apparently an intermediate form between fike v.1 and fidge v.
Scottish and northern dialect.
1. intransitive. ‘To move by slow succussations from one place to another’ (Jamieson). Cf. fidge v.
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1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iv. viii. 35 They are so nettled therewith, that they fitch hither and thither.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 63 A speakin' Pack's owre learnt for me, Or ane that steers an' fitches.
2.
a. transitive. ‘To move any thing a little way from its former place’ (Jamieson).
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1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Fitch that flake—remove that hurdle.
b. ‘To lift and lay down again, to touch a thing frequently’ (Jamieson); = fidge v.
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1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 99 This John [Simple] was ordinarily called Fitch-cape and Claw-poll, because in the time of Preaching or Praying he used to claw his Head, and rub his Callet.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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