单词 | inchpin |
释义 | † inchpinn. Obsolete. 1. A name among huntsmen for the sweetbread of a deer. But by some explained as ‘the lower gut’, or otherwise: see quots. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > game > [noun] > flesh of deer > cuts or parts numblesc1330 umbles14.. forcher1486 fenchec1560 flankard1567 inchpin1575 humblesa1592 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > viscera avantersc1400 mugget1481 umblesc1500 gather-bag1575 inchpin1575 gralloch1882 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xlii. 134 Take the caule, the tong, the eares, the doulcets, the tenderlings..and the sweete gut, which some call the Inchpinne..altogether for the Prince or chiefe. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 7 Thee stags vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Boyau Gras boyau, as Boyau culier; In beasts called, the Inche~pinne, or Inne-pinne. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Inchepinne, the lower gut of a Deere. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd in Wks. (1640) III Mar. I gave them All the sweet morsels, called Tongue, Eares, and Doucets! Rob. What? and the inch-pin ? View more context for this quotation 1680 Sir T. Browne Let. 7 July in Wks. (1852) III. 468 A dayntie bitt accounted by many, called the inspinne, which may be the intestinum rectum. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 188/1 Inchpin are the Sweet-breds or sweet Gut in the Deer. 2. Perhaps: a pin of the length of an inch. ΚΠ 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxi. 12) He compareth them to a But wherin an inchpin is woont to be set up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1571 |
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