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单词 gruel
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grueln.

Brit. /ˈɡruːəl/, U.S. /ˈɡru(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English gruwel, Middle English growel, growell(e, Middle English–1500s grewel, Middle English–1600s gruell, Middle English grewylle, grwel, grwel(l)e, gruelle, ? gravelle, Middle English– gruel.
Etymology: < Old French gruel (12th cent. in Littré), modern French gruau ground grain, flour, gruel, for *grueau , gruyau < medieval Latin *grūtellum , diminutive of grūtum of Germanic origin: compare Old English grút grout n.1
1. Fine flour, meal, or other farinaceous substance. Obsolete or dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > fine flour
marrow of wheateOE
gruel1333
maine flourc1440
tearc1440
manchet floura1450
pollen1523
amyl1577
blancheen1601
smeddum1808
cones1844
Vienna1868
Spanish white1882
1311 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. iv De gruell' sufficientia usque Pascham.]
1333-4 [see Compounds 1].
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 740/31 Hec polenta, grewylle.
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe f. lvii It is good to vse grewell, clene barleye [etc.].
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Gruel, same as Grudgings.
2. A light, liquid food (chiefly used as an article of diet for invalids) made by boiling oatmeal (or occasionally some other farinaceous substance) in water or milk, sometimes with the addition of other ingredients, as butter, sugar, spices, onions, etc. Grantham gruel (see quot. 1818). See also water gruel n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun]
gruel1362
water gruel?c1450
cullisc1460
chicken brothc1540
coulis1603
barley-milk1607
maize-cream1626
chicken water1684
barley-cream1694
thin gruel1699
viper-broth1702
wangracea1733
barley-gruel1769
beef-tea1783
conjee1789
Revalenta1848
skink1880
toast-water1905
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 169 A bolleful of gruwel.
c1400 tr. Lanfranc's Cirurg. 13 He schal ete for his mete growel maad of otemele, eiþir of barli mele wiþ almaundis.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 77 Take otenmele & cow mylke and make grewel.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Aiij Sethynge some grewell, and sterynge the pulment Of peese or frument.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L iv Beane of Egypt..is good..taken wyth beane mele after the maner of grewelle.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orgée, barlie gruell.
1634 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 12 His appetite..neuer..needed the assistance of cawdle, iulep, alebery, cullise, grewell, or stewd-broth.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 82/2 Grewel, is a kind of Broth made only of Water, Grotes brused and Currans, some add Mace, sweet Herbs, Butter and Eggs and Sugar: some call it Pottage Gruel.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame v, in Wks. (1757) I. 123 Cooling gruel, and composing tea.
1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 102 The Icelanders obtain a very delicate gruel with the fecula of the lichen Icelandicus.
1816 J. Austen Emma I. xii. 221 A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. View more context for this quotation
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 86 Thou wilt get naething at night save Grantham gruel, nine grots and a gallon of water.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 28 A sinful preference of roast mutton over gruel.
in extended use.a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 32 Make the Grewell thicke, and slab. View more context for this quotation1842 R. H. Barham St. Medard in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 286 And he hurl'd it straight At the Saint's bald pate, To knock out ‘the gruel he call'd his brains’.proverbial.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 662 (711) So thriue I this nyght shal I make it wel, Or casten al þe Growel in þe fyre.
3. Broth or pottage of oatmeal in which chopped meat has been boiled. Commonly gruel forced (aforced, enforced), gruel (of) force, or gruel of beef, etc. Similarly gruel of almonds. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup of oatmeal and meat
gruel?c1390
?c1390 Form of Cury (1780) 12 For to make grewel forced. Take grewel, and do to the fyre with gode flessh, and seeþ it well.
14.. Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 88 To mak grewelle enforced tak mary bones and freche brothe and mak grewelle and draw them throughe a strener, then tak [etc.].
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 6 Gruelle a-forsydde.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 70 Growelle fforce. Take Growell y-made of ffresh beef.
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 519 Growelle of force Gravelle of beeff or motoun, haue ye no care.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 47 For gruel of fors. Fyrst take porke, wele þou hit sethe With otene grotes.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 20 (heading) Gruel of Porke.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 14 Gruel of Almondes. Take almondes unblanchid and bray hom sone, Put ote mele to..And grynde alle sammen.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.vi Tansey is good hote wortes or gruell of befe or of motton is good.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Grewell, forced or stewed broth, offella.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Pulmentaris cibus, chopped meate made with pottage or broth: forced gruell.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 63 If a thicke grewell or sew be made thereof,..it cureth the pleurisie or paines of the sides.
4. to have or get one's gruel: to receive one's punishment, to get killed. So to take one's gruel, to give (a person) his gruel. colloquial.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)]
slayc1175
to put to deatha1450
to hang, draw, and quarter1465
strikec1480
execute1483
justify1531
execution1565
scaffold1716
to have or get one's gruel1797
society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)] > be put to death
to die the death1535
suffer1570
to have or get one's gruel1797
to take one's gruel1898
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 26 My pupil talked of nothing but of returning to Devizes, to ‘give the ostler his gruel’ for having taken him in.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 100 He gathered..that they expressed great indignation against some individual. ‘He shall have his gruel’, said one.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xvi. 111 I've got my gruel!
1851 C. Kingsley Yeast viii They've done for me, Paul. Old Harry's got his gruel.
1898 A. Conan Doyle Trag. Korosko 192 What have we to hope for? We may just as well take our gruel.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as gruel-dish, gruel-meal, gruel-pot, gruel-sieve.
ΚΠ
1333–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 525 In 3 cribris empt. pro granario et uno Growelseve et uno colour pro pistrina.
14.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 82 He fell doun..into a gruell potte.
14.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 83 These iij kyngus ete but of wone gruell dysche.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cccxlvi, in Poems (1878) IV. 187 'Tis a strange Gutt, that for a Gruell Meale Resigns her Birthright.
C2.
gruel-tree n. dialect (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1825–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gruel-tree, the stick used for stirring the porridge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gruelv.

Brit. /ˈɡruːəl/, U.S. /ˈɡru(ə)l/
Etymology: < gruel n.
1. transitive. To exhaust or disable; to ‘punish’. (Cf. gruel n. 4.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]
wearyc897
tirea1000
travailc1300
forwearya1325
taryc1375
tarc1440
matec1450
break1483
labour1496
overwearya1500
wear?1507
to wear out, forth1525
fatigate1535
stress1540
overtire1558
forwaste1563
to tire out1563
overwear1578
spend1582
out-tire1596
outwear1596
outweary1596
overspend1596
to toil out1596
attediate1603
bejade1620
lassate1623
harassa1626
overtask1628
tax1672
hag1674
trash1685
hatter1687
overtax1692
fatigue1693
to knock up1740
tire to death1740
overfatigue1741
fag1774
outdo1776
to do over1789
to use up1790
jade1798
overdo1817
frazzlea1825
worry1828
to sew up1837
to wear to death1840
to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847
gruel1850
to stump up1853
exhaust1860
finish1864
peter1869
knacker1886
grind1887
tew1893
crease1925
poop1931
raddle1951
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xii. 188 Wadham ran up by the side of that first Trinity yesterday, and he said that they were as well gruelled as so many posters, before they got to the stile.
1877 Punch 24 Mar. 129 The Crews were drinking each other's healths, in the vain attempt of each to gruel the other before the race.
2. To feed with gruel.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food
diet1362
put1620
gruel1804
pap-feed1809
chicken-broth1856
soup1857
1804 tr. J. H. F. La Martelière Three Gil Blas I. 69 You see..a man who has been confined to his bed a fortnight, consequently well plaistered and gruelled.
1892 Longman's Mag. July 319 I had better halt and gruel my exhausted mount.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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