| 单词 | fly shuttle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfly shuttle a. An instrument used in weaving for passing the thread of the weft to and fro from one edge of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. fly shuttle (see fly n.2 Compounds 2).The normal form of the shuttle resembles that of a boat, whence its name in various languages (Latin navicula, French navette, German weberschiff). Along the middle is an axis or ‘spindle’, on which revolves the ‘quill’ or ‘bobbin’, a cylinder carrying the thread of the weft. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle shuttle1338 weaver's shuttle1538 1338 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1819) II. 585/2 Item pro weblomes emptis xxs... Item pro iiij shittles pro eodem opere ijs vjd. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 728/15 Hec navecula, schetylle. c1400 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 85 Cum instrumento dicti artificii vocato shotil. 1483 Cath. Angl. 338/2 A Schutylle [v.r. shvtylle], nauicula, panus. 1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C j b Pecten, the shuttyll. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qii/2 A Shuttle, radius. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus iv. vii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 473 A weauers shittell. 1585 G. Wither A.B.C. for Laye-men 131 The sliding to and fro of the shettle in weauing. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 736 The Fishers Boats are made like to a Weauers Shutle. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 444 She trembling stood, and let her Shittle fall. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. Ye weavers, all your Shuttles throw. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 221 The shuttle is formed from a piece of boxwood. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 84 John's loom and shuttle could be heard. < as lemmas |
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