单词 | graip |
释义 | graipn. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. A three- or four-pronged fork used as a dung-fork or for digging. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork forkc1000 graip1459 prong1492 crotch1539 evil1642 yelve1688 prong fork1765 the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > fork > dung-fork muck-hook1300 muck-forkc1350 muck-hack1362 dung pick1381 dung fork1397 muck crook1446 graip1459 muck-crome1501 muck-drag1545 shed-spade1559 pluck1825 1459 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 89 j scala, j Grape, j Shepecroke. 1483 Cath. Angl. 163/1 A Grape; vbi forke, tridens (A.). 1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 170 A kowter, a soke, a muk fowe, a graype, 2 yerne forks. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 159 The graip he for a harrow taks. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 176 Potatoes..are raised in October..with the three pronged forks used for dung (provincially grapes). 1817 Edinb. Monthly Mag. 1 161/1 A graip, a sort of large three-pronged fork used about farm offices. 1821 W. Scott Pirate II. iv. 79 He shook his graip aloft. 1894 Superfluous Woman (ed. 4) I. 74 I must just give her the graip..and bid her lift a potato. ΚΠ 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 471 Greit Graipis of Gold his Greis [i.e. greaves]..And his Cussanis cumlie schynand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1459 |
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