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单词 avelong
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avelongadj.

Brit. /ˈeɪvlɒŋ/, U.S. /ˈeɪvˌlɔŋ/, /ˈeɪvˌlɑŋ/
Forms: late Middle English auelonge, late Middle English avelonge, late Middle English awelong, late Middle English awelonge, late Middle English aweylonge, late Middle English (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)) avelong, 1800s avelang (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s avellong (English regional (East Anglian)), 1800s ovelong (English regional (Yorkshire)).
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Apparently < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic (late) aflangr, Danish aflang , Old Swedish aflanger (Swedish aflång ); compare German ablang (17th cent.)), which perhaps shows remodelling of classical Latin oblongus oblong adj. after forms in the Scandinavian languages of of prep. and long adj.1 Compare earlier eavelong adj.The Middle English forms show lengthening of the vowel in the first syllable, apparently as a result of open syllable lengthening after the introduction of an epenthetic vowel between v and l . The form ovelong reflects remodelling of the first element after of- prefix in Middle English.
Now rare (English regional in later use).
1. Oblong; elongated in shape; (also) oval, elliptical. English regional (chiefly northern) in later use.In quot. 14402: (of a vessel that is intended to be round) out of shape.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > oval or elliptical
avelong1440
wrongc1440
oval1561
ellipsical1571
elliptical1656
round-long1663
elliptic1715
ovated1752
ovate1760
ovoid1776
ellipsoidal1831
dromic1850
oliviform1857
ellipsoid1861
vesical1865
dromical1875
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > quadrilateral > square or rectangular > rectangular or oblong
eavelonga1387
long-warpeda1400
avelong1440
wrongc1440
squarelike1557
rectangular?a1560
rectangulous1680
fenestriform1860
oblong1888
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 17 Auelonge [1499 Pynson aweylonge, a1500 BL Add. 37789 awelonge], oblongus.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 517 Warpyn, or wex wronge or avelonge, as vesselle, oblongo.
c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 107 (MED) Þe woundys of handes and feet are rounde, þe wounde in the syde is auelonge, as hit were of a speer.
a1475 (a1447) O. Bokenham Mappula Angliae in Englische Studien (1887) 10 7 (MED) And for as moche..þat þis Ile is auelonge [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. Polychron. euen longe, c1410 BL Add. evelonge; L. oblonga], hit is largere in þe myddes þane hit is in þe extremytees.
a1500 in A. Way Promptorium Parvulorum (1843) I. 17 (note) Oblongo, to make auelonge.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Avelang, elliptical, oval.
1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood 240 Avelong, oblong. ‘Aside o't' Grime-cabin cloise—a āavelong piece o' grund it is.’
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 5 Avelong,..oblong, or oval. Spectacle-glasses are avelong.
1915 G. H. Cowling Dial. Hackness p. xiv Their houses are severely plain—four square walls of avelong stone on which the old-fashioned ‘thack’..is now replaced by pleasant red tiles.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 12/1 Avellins, avelong, ovverlins, oval. (An over-long circle.)
2. English regional (East Anglian). Oblique, slanting. Only in avelong work n. work in a field (such as mowing or reaping) which has to be done at an angle to the main lines of the work, owing to the irregular shape of the field. Obsolete.
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1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 10 Workmen—reapers or mowers—approaching the side of a field not perpendicular or parallel to their line of work, will have an unequal portion to do—the excess or deficiency is called ‘avellong work’.
1866 J. G. Nall Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft 507 Avellong work. Mowing or reaping lying out of the perpendicular at the sides of fields is avolling [sic].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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