单词 | hurt-sickle |
释义 | hurt-sicklen. A name for the Corn Bluebottle ( Centaurea Cyanus), which grows among corn, and is apt to injure the edge of the sickle with its hard tough stem. ΚΠ 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. N iv Blew bottell..Sume herbaries call it baptisecula, or blaptisecula: because it hurteth sicles, whiche were ones called of olde wryters seculae.] 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xii. 161 This floure..may also be called Hurte Sicle. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 594 In English it is called blewe Bottle..and hurt sickle. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Barbarauoce, blew bottle, corne floure, or hurtsickle. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 124 Centaurea Cyanus..blue bottle, knapweed, hurt sickle or corn flower. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1578 |
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