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单词 gantry
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gantrygauntryn.

Brit. /ˈɡantri/, /ˈɡɔːntri/, U.S. /ˈɡæntri/
Forms: α. 1500s–1800s gantree, 1600s gauntrie, 1700s–1800s gauntree, gawntree, gauntry, 1600s– gantry. β. (plural used as singular 1700s–1800s gauntress, gauntrice.
Etymology: Of doubtful origin; apparently < gawn n. + tree n.; but this may be an etymologizing perversion of Old French gantier (14th cent. in Du Cange s.v. cantarium), variant of chantier ( < medieval Latin cantārium) gantry.
1. A four-footed wooden stand for barrels.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > cask stand
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scantling1632
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stilt1701
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stalder1736
stillion1803
stallage1838
α.
1574 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 251 ix hogesheads in the buttrie with the gantrees and traves there.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ponton,..a Stilling, or Gauntrie for Caske to stand on.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 30 A Gauntry, that on which we set Barrels in a Cellar. A Beer-stall.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 105 I..paid him upon a gantree As hostler wives should do.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 117 At Hallow-fair, where browsters rare Keep gude ale on the gantries.
a1804 J. Mather Songs (1862) xiii. 17 (Sheffield Gloss.) Our brewing tubs and gantries are overturn'd all.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 177 The housekeeper..is neither so young nor so bonny as to tempt a man to follow her to the gauntrees.
1893 F. Peel Spen Valley 282 Great gauntries where were..once stored multitudes of barrels of the strong ale.
β. 1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. I. 226 Gauntrice (so they call the wooden frame or stand on which they place their barrels, when they are to be tapped).1809 J. Grahame Brit. Georgics in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1179 The frothing bickers..Are drained, and to the gauntress oft return.
2.
a. A frame or platform for carrying a travelling-crane or similar structure.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework
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1810 Act 50 George III (Public Local & Personal Acts, c. 41) 54 Any..frame gantry or other article.
1861 Times 7 Oct. There were two travelling-cranes on the gantry over the bridge.
1882 Engineer 24 Feb. 133/2 Alongside these docks is a gantry, on which work steam cranes.
1896 Nature 24 Sept. 515 The scheme adopted was to erect a high gantry supported by towers on either bank.
attributive.1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 157 Gantry crane, an overhead travelling crane carried on a gantry.1943 J. S. Huxley TVA 23 Gantry cranes swung the concrete from the mixing barges to the forms.1958 Engineering 7 Mar. 298/3 The gantry tower, which is used in preparing the vehicle for flight, is being moved away from the launching area.
b. A structure crossing several railway-tracks to accommodate signals.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > signal gantry
gantry1889
1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 79 The fitting shop at Crewe turns out about nine signals per week, including composite or bracket and gantry posts.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 144/1 In cases where room must be economized, signals are usually placed on narrow overhead bridges or ‘gantries’ spanning a number of tracks.
1939 R. S. Lyons Wonders Mod. Industry iii. 35 Ten rail-joints, then Exe Station; ten more rail-joints, then signal gantry, bridge.
1958 J. R. Day & B. K. Cooper Railway Signalling Syst. viii. 124 The train stops must always be beside the line to which they refer, but the signals, with which they must be connected may be on a gantry or bracket some distance from that line.

Derivatives

Hence (from the β form)
ˈgauntress v. (transitive) to mount on a beer-stand.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [verb (transitive)] > mount on beer stand
gauntress1812
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair vi. xxiv. 139 Gawntress'd round each ruddy fire about, Hogheads of porter..spout Their genial streams.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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