单词 | frame house |
释义 | † frame housen.1 Obsolete. A house in which things are framed or fashioned. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > workshop > [noun] workhouseOE officinec1425 shopc1450 working-house1474 working place?1505 frame housea1555 workshop1556 framing house1559 working-shop1566 shophouse1567 frame building1574 operatory1651 shopping1684 officina1832 atelier1882 craft shop1896 skunk works1960 a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 276 The crosse..is the frame house in the which god frameth his children like to his sonne Christe. 1577 H. Bull tr. M. Luther Comm. 15 Psalmes (new ed.) 14 The common people are, as it were the frame house of Satan, because they loth and despise that which is dayly taught them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2020). frame housen.2 Chiefly North American. A house constructed from a wooden skeleton, typically covered with timber boards. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction thatch-house1521 slate house1554 thack housec1600 frame house1627 log-house1662 straw1665 thatch1693 tin-house1798 fog house1799 leaf house1811 rock house1818 black house1819 blockhouse1821 white house1824 slab-and-bark house1826 brown house1845 brush house1854 soddy1877 hurdle-housea1879 bottle house1913 stucco1922 prefab1942 Portal house1944 Airey1945 yali1962 1627 G. Richardson Of State of Europe iii. 20 The sheepe of this countrey (especially of the Feldon) are great devourers, eating vp villages, & frame-houses. 1732 R. Norton Let. (modernized text) in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. 25 (1965) 175 We built a frame house at Eskemay Point. 1787 Amer. Museum Nov. 477/2 Fire-hooks are of great use; for a frame house seasonably pulled down, may save a whole street. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 331 Every planter..is able to erect a handsome frame-house. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 394 In a little white frame-house we found a company of engineers. 1911 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 1 Four Italians..were arrested yesterday..charged with carting away, in sections, a three-story frame house. 1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain i. 22 His six boys and one girl grew up untended in the shambling old frame house. 2007 P. P. Fish Antique Houses of Gloucester iv. 83/2 Most of the frame houses date to the first quarter of the eighteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1a1555n.21627 |
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