单词 | garret |
释义 | garretn.1ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place garret1340 tooting-towera1382 watch-house1482 watchtower1544 watch-stand1610 beacon1611 mount1612 belfry1631 lookout1662 mirador1672 lookout tower1748 toot1770 watch point1893 observation post1909 lookout station1928 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles pinnaclec1330 garret1340 filiolec1400 pricket1534 tower-work1653 pinnet1805 pinnaclet1905 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 9101 Þe garettes oboven þe yhates bryght Of þe ceté of heven, I lyken þus ryght, Tylle þe garettes of a ceté of gold. a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 1658 He be-held forþer a lite To a chaunber vnder a garite. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 562 There salle appone Godarde a garette be rerede. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 88 She putte her in a garet to see the Kinge Josue passe. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 112 Garrits and watch houses, where the..Sentinels are to be placed. 2. A room on the uppermost floor of a house; an apartment formed either partially or wholly within the roof, an attic. from cellar to garret, from garret to kitchen, etc.: over the whole house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > upper room or loft sollarc897 roostOE loftc1385 cellara1400 roofc1405 garret1483 solier1483 hall of stage1485 coploft1571 cockloftc1580 tallet1586 cotloft1642 chamber1644 kitchen loft1648 vance-roof1655 sky-parlour1777 attic1818 soleret1851 overhead1949 dormer room1951 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > throughout the house but and benc1375 from garret to kitchen1712 from cellar to garret1828 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton H v b What shold auaylle..a garette ful of whete or a celer ful of wyn. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 43 In Countreys that are very wette and watrishe, it is better to make them [sc. corn lofts] in Garrettes as hie as may be. 1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes xvii, in Wks. (1859) VII. 180 My Lord St. Alban said that wise Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 This is not for an unbutton'd fellow to discuss in the Garret, at his tressle. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 24 Two Stories high, besides Cellars and Garrats. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. viii. 35 John Bull..ran up Stairs and down Stairs, from the Kitchen to the Garrets, and from the Garrets to the Kitchen. 1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c24 Sept. (1965) I. 226 If it was possible to restore Liberty to your Country..by reduceing your selfe to a Garret, I should be pleas'd to share so glorious a poverty with you. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 219 The..lodging-house, where the poet Codrus, and his wife, were permitted to hire a wretched garret immediately under the tiles. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 302 The news of his arrival circulated from the cellar to the garret. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 80 I was through all our house yesterday, from garret to kitchen. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 211 His [Johnson's] happiest effort is a dissertation upon the advantage of living in garrets. 3. slang. a. The head; esp. in phrases to be wrong in one's garret, to have one's garret unfurnished, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Garret, or Upper Story, the head. His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool. 1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 335 What's called ‘The Claret’ Flew over the garret. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale (at cited word) To be wrang in yan's Garrets, to be wanting in intellect, or suffering from temporary delirium. b. (See quot. 1819.) ΚΠ 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 177 Garret, the fob-pocket. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. garret chamber n. ΚΠ 1657 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. VII. 39/2 John Norman is to build an house for them..with..one garret chamber. 1889 R. T. Cooke Steadfast ii. 27 She crept upstairs to the ‘garret-chamber’ where she slept. garret-poverty n. ΚΠ 17.. Addit. to Pope (1776) I. 117 Again my garret poverty is shown By the mean cov'ring of this Portland stone. garret-room n. ΚΠ 1671 J. Davies Sibylls i. viii. 23 There may be some brain which hath garret-room to receive it. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxiv. 66 It was a bare garret-room. garret-stairs n. ΚΠ 1688 S. Sewall Diary I. 241 I thought of Mr. Oakes's Dream about Mr. Shepard and Mitchell beckening him up the Garret-Stairs in Harvard College. 1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 203 My aunt came hastily up the garret-stairs. garret-story n. ΚΠ 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 1 Most of them have now what the country-people call a loft; i.e. a garret-story. garret-window n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lucarne, a garret window, or window in the roofe of a house, etc. b. garret-high adj. ΚΠ 1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment He hires some Homely Room, Love's Fruits to gather, And, Garret-high, Rebels against his Father. c. garret-wise adv. ΚΠ 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 531 The rooms on the second floor are still arranged garret-wise. C2. garret-lock n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > other types of lock inlock1488 treble lock1680 French lock1787 ringlock1789 thumb-lock1801 bar-lock1828 permutation lock1835 check-lock1850 pin lock1851 time lock1858 garret-lock1860 dead lock1866 seal-lock1871 dead-latch1874 Bramah-lock1875 cylinder lock1878 police lock1910 ziplock1956 solenoid lock1976 D-lock1990 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Garret-lock, the term applied to locks of the most inferior description, because they are made by men of small means who live and work in garrets. garret-master n. a cabinet-maker, lock-smith, etc. who works on his own account, selling his manufacture to the dealers direct (cf. chamber-master n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman > expert > working on own account or employing others masterc1300 upsetter1518 craftsmaster1579 master workman1670 garret-master1851 master craftsman1865 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 376/2 In the shoe trade,..they are called ‘chamber-masters’, in the ‘cabinet trade’ they are termed ‘garret-masters’. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 223/2 These garret-masters are a class of small ‘trade-working masters’, supplying both capital and labour. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/3 Complaints made by the local Locksmith's Trades Union, as to the sub~letting of Navy contracts to garret-masters not under factory inspection. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † garretn.2ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §352 The Experiment of Wood that Shineth in the Darke..The Colour of the Shining Part, by Day-light, is in some Peeces White, in some Peeces inclining to Red; Which in the Countrey they call the White and Red Garret. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). garretv. Building. transitive. To insert small pieces of stone in the joints of (coarse masonry). ΚΠ 1846 Ecclesiologist 6 45 The old way of ‘garreting’ flint-work, that is, of inserting small flint-shivers in the mortar of the joints. Derivatives ˈgarreting n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes raggling1500 rigalding1688 tailing1700 rusticating1749 rustication1766 knobbling1785 boasting1823 wind-pinning1833 stroking1842 garreting1845 hearting1858 knobbing1875 ripple-flaking1883 retouch1885 1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 182 Garretting: small splinters of stone, inserted in the joints of course masonry; they are stuck in after the work is built. Flint walls are very frequently garretted. 1893 Surrey Gloss. Garreting, a species of pointing of stonework with small chips of stone in the joints. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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