单词 | ginour |
释义 | † ginourn. Obsolete. A stonemason, a builder. Also: a person who operates siege engines (cf. engineer n. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > engineers ginour?1265 pioneer corps1775 Royal Engineers1787 RE1838 REME1942 Seabees1942 ?1265 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/30/9) Willelmus le Ginnur. c1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Cambr.) (1966) 324 Wend to-moreȝe to þe tur, Also þu were a gud ginnur. a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) (1810) l. 5221 The gynours mangeneles bente, And stones to the cyte they sente. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 690 The gynour than gert bend in hy The gyne, and swappit out the stane. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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